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You can't talk about the information created by a game at all in a money-making context without making yourself legally liable to the league.

NBA tried to claim that in NBA v. STATS. At 1088, 1093, 1094 [come on Google, put in page and paragraph anchors!]:

NBA games do not constitute "original works of authorship" and thus do not fall within the subject matter of copyright protection ... I decline NBA's invitation to stretch the Copyright Act's grant of exclusivity to subject matters so far removed and qualitatively different from those at the core of its protection. ... Similarly, NBA has failed to show an infringement of its copyright in the broadcasts of NBA games. ... The mere fact that the information conveyed by defendants often is acquired by viewing the broadcasts of NBA games does not alter the fact that defendants have not copied the "`constituent elements of the [broadcasts of NBA games] that are original.'"

A state law claim of misappropriation was dismissed on appeal on the basis that federal copyright law preempts the state law. The 2nd Circuit's decision at 851 quotes Computer Associates v. Altai at 717 (this case is a good read for the Slashdot crowd: copyright, trade secret and software):

An action will not be saved from preemption by elements such as awareness or intent, which alter `the action's scope but not its nature'.... Following this `extra element' test, we have held that unfair competition and misappropriation claims grounded solely in the copying of a plaintiff's protected expression are preempted by section 301.

That said, the above case law may be merely academic if the sports leagues are just trying to run you out of business with legal fees and hassles.

How do I delete this new attack from HTC? If I can't just delete it, but instead I have to root the phone and install an Android OS not from HTC or my carrier, where is the complete list of what I'll lose when I do so? And instructions for doing it?

And where's the NY attorney general phone#, so I can report this hellish violation of any contract I had with HTC, and general privacy invasion?

Ask, and you shall be answered: http://goo.gl/z6au.

Scootaloo Agrees:
Hammer!

http://goo.gl/kqXJa

among the highlights - they get the data from CERN in realtime, and can actually control the LHC remotely.

oh, and the buttons to stop & start the tevatron are pretty cool ;)

CC-BY-ND is what I used for my thesis. Given that the default copyright status of any work such as a thesis is "all rights reserved", I don't see how this can be a bad thing: it's just an explicit waiver of certain rights. Attribution and originality are considered important in a typical "western" academic environment (maybe elsewhere also -- I wouldn't know), and that's all the "BY" and "ND" parts assert. In fact, the "BY" and "ND" parts are intended to preserve the integrity of the work for the sake of clarity in future references: if there's an interesting remark in there that you want to quote, it's important that you have a proper reference for it (BY) and that you can be reasonably sure it's what the author actually said (ND). Just slapping a CC-BY-ND on it doesn't magically make it happen, of course, but it expresses the intended use well.

In response to the sibling reply "ND? you're on crack", it's already considered fair use to quote other works in context, regardless of copyright licenses, so it's not like the "ND" part can take that away. I just want to grant the additional right to redistribute the work, for any reason, so long as attribution is preserved. I want it to be publicly available.

This means setting PERMANENT rates that are not subject to a vote to maintain.

No law or statute in this country is permanent, including those codified in the Constitution. Furthermore, a session of Congress cannot be bound by any previous session of Congress. The best one could hope for would be an amendment to the Constitution, but again, this is reversable.

Bring down our business tax rate, ours is one of highest in the world and one of the few that taxes income made outside of the country.

Our corporate tax rate is one of the highest but is one of the lowest in revenue. This rate could be lowered if all/most deductions are removed. Some charts to mull over.

CAP income tax rates. Set them in stone. None of this "we will renew it next year crap"

See my previous response.

Flatten tax rates.

Having a flatter tax rate does nothing but give the wealthiest Americans more money. If giving more money to wealthy people was such a fantastic driver of economic prosperity I suspect we wouldn't be having this convesation. There a any number of ways we could reduce spending and increase revenues. None of the things you posit will balance our books.

The fact that you are comparing the way the Arabs in Palestinian territories live to those trapped in Nazi concentration camps, shows that you have not paid attention in history class. Please observe how terrible life is for these poor people in Gaza: http://goo.gl/H4zY5 and then ask for a refund from your high school.

Here is a blog post on a related topic http://goo.gl/K3dDG. We already have genetic proof of interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans (more common in specific asian populations). There are also suggestions that all of this mixing is a lot more complicated than we ever thought and not even subject to single periods of time. Personally I find the fact that we are actually a mix of old divergent species really exciting and our genome is really a big twisted mystery just asking to be unraveled to find out where the hell parts of it came from.

http://goo.gl/V9S3B
Why SEC is not regulating the market capitalization of listed companies while FED regulates the reserve ratio of banks?

http://goo.gl/V9S3B
Why SEC is not regulating the market capitalization of listed companies while FED regulates the reserve ratio of banks?

Modern high bypass turbofan aircraft engines are sort of more akin to turboprops than to early turbojet engines. Propfan is one of more promising improvements. "Frames" go for composites, so organic materials...

Maybe what NASA says is that they've made a mistake. One almost not done by anyone else* ...but very popular in works of fiction. Maybe it's simply how dreams about expected modes of space travel turned out to be wrong; dreams extrapolating (not understanding, generally) rates and directions of observed progress. Look at those airplanes from "our" times (imagined during rapid advances of marine tech; and we can even build them - take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy... still a horrible idea vs. "boring" reality)

Consider how the "spaceplanes" came to dominate scifi... around the 40s, during rapid advances of airplane tech (I can see a pattern...); how the designers and decision-makers of the Shuttle were undoubtedly raised on those works of fiction. And how they gave us an analogue of Catalina, at best (Spruce Goose, at worst); but something which looked very soothing and "inspiring" to the already constrained public imagination, already quite accustomed to airliners / Concorde. Something which probably robbed us at least of a decade of progress; was conceptually obsolete (with automatic rendezvous, docking and routine return of large valuable cargo done in the 60s) before it seriously got onto drawing boards. It was a retreat to early dreams.

Short spurs of progress are generally typical of our civilisation, in the Real World(tm); it's what tends to happen with everything. BTW, have you seen the ideas of Archimedes about floating improved? Come on, his law is over 2k years old, surely we should be able to ignore it by now...


*The Shuttle appears to make more sense if you look at it as a geopolitical engineering project, to provoke the ignorant Soviet generals[1] into pushing for a rampant spending of their counterpart, to have a parity for (non-existent) "strategic advantage" of the STS. Of course, then one has to ask why was it allowed to continue sucking NASA dry for the past two decades?... there even was a good opportunity to terminate the program post-Challenger (of course, that in turn could be also a "revenge of the Buran" of sorts - it was essentially being prepped on its launchpad at the time, and of course the Soviets couldn't be allowed to be the only ones with a shuttle[2])

1. Their engineers very much didn't want to go there, preferring Spiral approach. With the vehicle being just a dumb payload of medium launcher ...ultimately, when forced, doing the same with STS-class vehicle (Energia was a more sensible approach from the start, one very similar to this Space Launch System) - but it bled them dry, killed what they really wanted (Zarya "super Soyuz")

2. Who knows, the history might judge the last laugh was even more on Buran - in its only flight, it demonstared the whole main "point" behind a shuttle (its flight profile) to a much fuller degree than any of STS vehicles ever did. With the secondary point (LEO space station) being essentially, for STS fleet, in the form of maintenance and expansion of two space stations meant for Buran...

They have to take and put up with these people. Yes, it's an asshole of the country, and these people are in close proximity to it -- just like Slashdot and the internet. You have to take all of the trolls, because nobody else will.

I would urge everybody to read the official report or at least a short summary. What is glaring is what is not in it:

• - No WTC-7 collapse
• - No explanation of find dust cloud
• - No explanation why a plane crash in the 90th floor could damage the "software" (yes, that's correct) running in the command center in the 22nd floor.
• - No explanation how the collapse of the towers (which is without precedent even though there have been much bigger and longer fires in high-rise steel buildings) could happen

If anybody calls you a "conspiracy theorist", ask him wether he believes that WTC-7 did not collapse because according to the "official story" it did not. All that "pancake theory"-stuff is just as "inofficial" as Alex Jones.

I would urge everybody to read the official report or at least a short summary. What is glaring is what is not in it:

• - No WTC-7 collapse
• - No explanation of find dust cloud
• - No explanation why a plane crash in the 90th floor could damage the "software" (yes, that's correct) running in the command center in the 22nd floor.
• - No explanation how the collapse of the towers (which is without precedent even though there have been much bigger and longer fires in high-rise steel buildings) could happen

If anybody calls you a "conspiracy theorist", ask him wether he believes that WTC-7 did not collapse because according to the "official story" it did not. All that "pancake theory"-stuff is just as "inofficial" as Alex Jones.

just googling Theldala Magee there are thousands of blogs with this info and spreading like wildfire

I bet this TSA molester is wishing she never said a word at all.

There are sites linking Theldala Magee to search keywords from r@ygold to TSA rapist

http://goo.gl/QZ15r

• Predicted video rental would evolve to use a portable hard drive cartridge system for transferring content between Blockbuster and home. Never saw Blu-Ray coming.
• Launched an HD tv station thinking he would beat all the other broadcasters to the format.

Don't measure Yahoo by the wisdom of its own ideas. Measure it by the ideas of those who have successfully tricked Yahoo in the past. To clarify, Yahoo bought Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion, of which Cuban ran off with about $2 billion. As far as Yahoo is concerned, it literally vaporized $5.7 billion in wealth through this transaction.

Seth

The quote, from "The art of Unix programming" (thanks to Google Books! - http://goo.gl/3WDeV) does not even imply that. Further, readings on the History of the C language does not imply that either. Rather, from what I can find - and what those same text do infer - they rewrote Unix in C because they wanted a portable source code base, not to prove anything (like Unix could be written in C) - that just happened by chance, but was not a goal be to proven. So, as I said - it showed that C could do what it was intended to do, not that it could be done - they had already rewritten most of Unix in B by that point already too, only to have problems with the limitations of B (see the same source).

By your estimate - I'll take the lot! I should be able to buy all of the breathable air in the world for a cool four grand!

Wolfram alpha can be wonderful sometimes:
http://goo.gl/AKz6j

There are at least 2 reasons why this might be an option:

It almost goes without saying on this site, but one could install a free operating system.

One could be replacing a laptop that had a OS bought separately. As long as the former laptop is unusable or wiped it is perfectly legal to transfer the OS to the new laptop. This could be done for several laptops, especially if one is not interested in upgrading to the latest and greatest version of a payed for OS.

As a legally questionable bonus: If your laptop came with a license key for Windows 7, you could download an ISO here: (NB: the amazon links seem to be dead, but the DR links seem to work)
http://goo.gl/EmxXQ

A really great site I found was recently is called Sharing is Caring. There are lots of wonderful people from around the world that would love to help your cause. It's amazing how little effort it takes to get your pledge up and running and how generous these people are.

This is a great site. When I've worked with a couple of soup kitchens that were short on money we've used that site to help raise around $200,000 dollars in just a couple of days. There are lots of generous people on that site more than willing to help out great causes like yours.

Actually, authenticated FTP should be extinct. When all I need to compromise the account is to tap a line and wireshark it, that's broken.

Local Internet access in Tripoli was temporarily restored late Saturday local time after months of disruption

On the contrary, using dedicated protocols, designed for the purpose at hand (FTP == File Transfer Protocol) results in smaller code size, fewer lines of code and fewer opportunities for vulnerabilities. "Universal" protocols like HTTP require code paths that are not necessarily exercised or tested in a particular implementation and are ideal hiding places for security flaws.

Since when is FTP dead for "large file transfers"??? Visit the mirror list for any linux distribution and you will find many many links to download DVD ISO images via FTP.

A majority of the country's international routes were also down for a while early morning on Sunday

to be honest, if the domain has existed for 11 years... it would be a hard case for Atari in court. Especially so if it's been registered to the same owner for all 11 years.

By "sneaky way", do you mean the "as such" clause? What are the judicial decisions in this area?

...and the vultures circle...

But isn't he (Rick Perry) interfering here with god's plan for him to have back pain?

Of course hat big, lovable(?) difference means they are at least an order of magnitude away, in energy expenditure required, from being able to reach orbit.

Locations are not that much of a problem, a lot of Earth's area is an ocean. Also, industrial complexes tend to be near coastline (even if their specific area is unsuitable for launches, it makes for an easy means to transport large cargo). Besides, the spaceport in question is also in rather desolated area. And generally, it's largely also about planned "crashes" of staging.

Those scramjet vehicles, that pop out now and then, might be possibly better described as "missile demonstrator" or "weapons carrier" ...probably closer to the most feasible and/or intended function (which follow the form, and vice versa; nice overall, less geopolitical complications than with ICBMs, and without the need to have a launcher placed in the theatre (or bomber carrier getting nearby), how convenient; the good old search for tech which can destabilize the balance and trigger a new arms race / sales).

When you really seriously do the math (like they did with HOTOL, for example), ~winged orbital vehicles using the atmosphere during launch turn out not really better than a "dumb rocket" using comparable materials ...which for a spaceplane are required to make it even barely feasible. Similarly, 3 km of elevation won't make much of a difference - the rockets cover that very quickly. Their main goal is not height, but speed (launching near equator is more worthwhile)

And X-34 (plus few others being worked on, Dream Chaser for example) is just a payload of ordinary rocket.

More generally, historically, everybody at first expected "aerodynamic" or "spaceplane-ish" shapes from reentry vehicles, and worked towards it hard. They proved relatively unworkable. Blunt shape entry capsule was quite late innovation, an improvement; and a bit of a surprise. There's nothing wrong with capsules. Physics, rocket equation, are a bitch - and they override dreams (here, about expected modes of space travel); dreams unduly extrapolating rates and directions of observed progress. Look at those airplanes from "our" times (imagined during rapid advances of marine tech; and we can even build them - take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy... still a horrible idea vs. "boring" reality).

Consider how the "spaceplanes" came to dominate scifi... around the 40s, during rapid advances of airplane tech (I can see a pattern...); how the designers and decision-makers of the Shuttle were undoubtedly raised on those works of fiction. How they gave us an analogue of Catalina, at best (Spruce Goose, at worst); but something which looked very soothing and "inspiring" to the already constrained public imagination, already quite accustomed to airliners / Concorde. Something which probably robbed us at least of a decade of progress; was conceptually obsolete (with automatic rendezvous, docking and routine return of large valuable cargo done since the 60s) before it seriously got onto drawing boards. Wasting most of upmass on airframe; a lot of good that does in space ...where it doesn't matter how "sleek" something looks. We build vehicles meant for various environments in very different, specific ways. Making a spacecraft out of an aircraft appears to have limited utility (and by the time it maybe-who-knows might, we could be on our way to in-situ manufacturing and making the "from reactive atmosphere to low orbit" problem uninteresting)

Grandiose, fabulous, "awesome" styles typical of scifi (again, works of fiction) mostly just constrain public imagination, make them expect something palatable, nothing too uncomfortable and too

For those of us who don’t know, what exactly is the law that allows us a refund in this particular instance? (And is it a US law? UK? EU? USSR? Ok, maybe not USER.)

Apple has provided flawed visual evidence of similarities between the iPhone 3G and Samsung's Galaxy S smartphones to the District Court in The Hague, an investigation by Webwereld.nl, a Dutch IDG publication, has found.

According to Samsung, the dimensions of the Galaxy S are 122.4 x 64.2 mm.The iPhone 3G measures 115.5 x 62.1 mm

Interesting, but there was a similar story about training cancer sniffing dogs in Tallahassee about 16 years ago.

I refuse to own a TV at all!

I think someone has taken things a bit too seriously.

It surprises me that for the second time incorrect presentations of a Samsung product emerge in photographic evidence filed in litigation,

Trop cool comme debouche scientifique!

Why not regulate all adobe product line, no point just doing it to the home addition, same with yearly subscription prices. You might even convince some of the pirates that its worth buying.

P.S. out_of_the_blue, try some anti-depressants. Then you can be a freetard like the rest of us.

HP's purchase of Palm and Palm's WebOS sounded the death knell for WebOS. A truly excellent smart phone OS which HP has decided not to continue to market on smart phones.

We don’t intend to carry it forward,” Mr. Neyland added. “Darpa hands the keys over to this entity, and we wish them well.

I'd prefer it to make some coffee!

Just what we need. Less due process. Actually I'm very irritated by this.

China Mobile have met with Jobs a number of times to discuss introducing an iPhone compliant with China Mobile’s network standard.

Synthesizing some of these compounds can take years

Are those 20 dollars adjusted by inflation? Because 20 dollars would buy a hell of a lot more stuff in in 1776 than it would in 2010.

The relative worth of $20.00 from 1776 is
$515.00 using the Consumer Price Index
$10,500.00 using the unskilled wage index

The plaintiffs are claiming that the location-tracking feature on the iPhone has inflicted emotional distress on the device owners.

Approximations got man to the moon.