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Ok, I actually read /usr/src/linux/COPYING....

  Please see Linus's posting on LKML for the truth behind this.

I think you should see abstraction filtration comparison along with the fact that the GPL is a copyright license to work out what's a derived work or not and not relly on legal advise from someone who's not a lawyer (Yes and IANAL!!)

That portable TurboGrafix16 (Name anybody?)

I find it quite odd that you assume that the problem has to be my fault because I run a certain OS and criticize me for it then admit that it's illegal to take over someones PC without consent in most countries.

Well, you problem appeared to be a compromised email (emails being sent with you email address but not by you), if you email address isn't public then it's been taken from a zombie PC that has your email address on it, this isn't just the fault of the OS but people who run a certain OS that's well known for having security problems don't seem to be any good at keeping up with updates.

I don't see you complaining that you have to lock your doors and don't just have to press a button to start your car. People are always going to take you for a ride if possible and you have to be astute if you don't want to be, maybe that means not using a common word for your email address, maybe that means making sure you OS is up to data and secured and not a zombie.

By definition spam isn't legitimate.

Well, it depends on who's definition you use, but generally spam seems to be defined as unsolicited bulk email (the electronic equivalent of paper junk mail) and as far as I'm concerned it's no less legitimate than any other form of advertising, and I do know people who like the unsolicited bulk snail-mail that pops through the door so I'm sure someone somewhere likes spam.

Frankly if you're not a spammed I suspect you benefit from it in some manner or you wouldn't be doing this.
equivalent of paper junk mail
No, I'm able to see spamming from a critical point of view, next to no-one on /. would support spam, infact it's almost pointless having a discussion about it. So I thought I'd take the point of view of someone who uses spam for advertising within the law (no zombies etc...) and ask why spam should be treated differently than any other form of advertising, kind of a devils advocate.

The only two responses I seem to have had is that it costs the received more than the sender, they stole my email address and now it gets bounced around by zombies.

The second problem is already against the law and more legislation probably won't help, and the first problem can be solved relatively effectively by taxing spam.

It's not just 'mailing list' anymore, for instance Experian sell more demographic and other data than you could possibly imagine and stores like WallMart and Tesco hold and sell a huge amount of information often about individual people.
That data is readily sold to advertisers (and anyone else who wants it) and it more-or-less works out as a tax being charged by the data providers that ends up costing the customer in a nnumber of ways mostly relating to freedom of choice.

Correct.. Here's a quick search to get you started

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&hs=hH5&safe=o ff&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official &q=diffraction+limit+small+lenses&spell=1

Or at least start with the housenumbers clearly visable if the security (of the children probably) is such a big issue. Nothing is more fun then having people in a fire and the firebrigade is unable to find where they have to go to. Not every fire is visable from miles away and you would like them to be there before they CAN see it from miles away.

Some links here, here, and many more

That being said, it is a lame excuse just to be able to track people.

Isn't that just the beauty of slashdot, someone starts a pissing contest and we end up quoting Joyce.

Christian Cook
thinctanc.co.uk

So any company (e.g. overture or microsoft) could sue Google for running adwords which contain the phrase overture or microsoft. That's plainly ridiculous. What about Hoover. What about any of a million business names.

If I was Google, I'd immediately make sure that nobody could buy an ad containing words trademarked by my main competitors. And then I'd sue every single text-ad serving company that allows the word "google" to be sold by them.

So any company (e.g. overture or microsoft) could sue Google for running adwords which contain the phrase overture or microsoft. That's plainly ridiculous. What about Hoover. What about any of a million business names.

If I was Google, I'd immediately make sure that nobody could buy an ad containing words trademarked by my main competitors. And then I'd sue every single text-ad serving company that allows the word "google" to be sold by them.

So any company (e.g. overture or microsoft) could sue Google for running adwords which contain the phrase overture or microsoft. That's plainly ridiculous. What about Hoover. What about any of a million business names.

If I was Google, I'd immediately make sure that nobody could buy an ad containing words trademarked by my main competitors. And then I'd sue every single text-ad serving company that allows the word "google" to be sold by them.

That's not actually the guy who discovered such phenomena.
See http://groups.google.co.uk/group/sci.math/browse_f rm/thread/aca7da072ed16f07/b213e910f7c4157f?lnk=st &q=%22the+story+behind+a+formula+of+pi%22&rnum=1&h l=en#b213e910f7c4157f. It's quite a depressing story - a modern day Tartaglia?

No, this isn't a crackpot, you can search for Simon Plouffe to see that his work is real.

There's a legal process called Abstraction,
Filtration, Comparison that happens when someone claims that reverse engineering violates copyright.

The process is basically as follows:

For a copyright violation someone must have copied to code, so the source code is the only thing that relates to reverse-engineering and copyright.

First of all all trivial bits of the code are ignored
The two code bases are then checked for common areas of code.
Then the code in the common areas that is their due to necessisity is removed.
and the code that's left is used as the basis of the copyright infringement.

It's also a good argument for GPL not being able to prevent dynamic runtime linking. (Since GPL is based on copyright)

Hmm a rocket scientist you say? then u should know... Google images is your friend

Oh well

Yeah, so I'm going to hell. Still, someone had to do it. :) Few bugs with this implementation however. :/

holy crap! i gotta get one of these hot new things! it will be a revolution in data storage!

Starting with this search: audio diskette, 1981-1988

Lead me to posts regarding compusonics who patented and marketted such a technology. Although whether it was analouge is questionable.

Regards, and I'd please let us know any outcome.

Alex

Starting with this search: audio diskette, 1981-1988

Lead me to posts regarding compusonics who patented and marketted such a technology. Although whether it was analouge is questionable.

Regards, and I'd please let us know any outcome.

Alex

That's true about the Chinese hackers.. For example: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mskshow

Just looked on google and there's a ton of stuff. Quite interesting was Cprogramming.com's C++ Programming Challenge, but there's loads more....

It's not difficult to find them: Google.com Search: Wifi Linux Usb Adaptor

...Harold Shipman

Oh my God! Harold Shipman has come back from the dead and is breaking into my network!

Somebody out there is still running AIX

Yeah, I hear that AIX has a large lesbian following...

2. Use HTP: HTTP Time Protocol

And using Google these days is so hard?

Do you mean this Fort William?

While the overwhelming majority of their revenue comes from advertising, don't forget that they'll also quite happily sell you a Google Applicance:

http://www.google.co.uk/enterprise/

And, I pressume, professional services to go along with that.

They'll also sell you some other completely random crap:

http://www.google-store.com/

And there I was thinking that all printed information is traceable.

They do it so well and so cleanly

Well, they do now, anyway. I get the impression that this Hybrid stuff has been around a while, but they were trying to get the mapping correct (I mean mapping between co-ordinate systems used by the source data). It wasn't long ago that if you switched between map and satellite view (at least in my area) they didn't match up exactly.

It was pretty good, but not enough for overlaying the two. However the hybrid view of where I live is now pretty damn good. Having said that, they still clearly have problems with some areas.

I'm tempted to say this is just a question of getting the maths right, but I expect there's a whole load of inconsistent crap in the source data that they (and anyone else who does this) has to cope with. Goddamn humans :-)

Sometimes the map and satellite data don't quite line up...

And, apparently, in the current war in Iraq too. US media may not have covered this story.

Okay.

Good Heavens! Such an articulate rebuttal! I reply only to add - everything I have said is verifiable on the Internet somewhere. You can start by googling "piracy links organised crime", if interested.

Your first reaction is not necessarily the correct one.

To be fair, this consultant (Bob Swartz) is quite a legend. He did the clean-room implementation of Coherent, a clone of AT&T Unix. Unfortunately like so many techies he had no business savvy, eventually leading to this: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.os.coherent/ browse_frm/thread/bf3c22925baa8686/e36245dd33a5fbd 7.

Not all consultants are evil. The 'generic' consultants are, the ones who have genuine expertise are to be honoured...

JFGI

That won't refer to the London train bombers as "terrorists"?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Anews.bbc.c o.uk+terrorist+OR+terrorists+london+july+2005

"[The USA went on] in Cuba to support Flgercio Batista and create Fidel Castro; in Vietnam to support Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngugen Van Theiu and end up with Ho Chi Minh and his successors; in Iran to support the Shah and find itself opposed by Ayatollah Khomeini. By taking a militant [...] position, the United States has repeatedly found itself on the side of the oppressors and against the people, or, in other words, against local nationalism.

Paradoxically [...] is seems that the more strenuous are America's efforts to restrain insurrection abroad, the less likely are democratic institutions to flourish."

"American Foreign Policy" by Kegley & Wittkopf, p71

Sectarian policies are already showing up in northern (kurdish) and southern (shiite) Iraq that do not follow the proscribed rule of law in Baghdad. It is foolish to think that these changes will not grow so great in time as to make the tapastry of law and justice dissolve completely as groups choose to ignore the provisional government or rally against it as being illegitimate. Unless the US begins thinking in terms of Kurdistan and talking to the EU about getting Turkey to hand over parts of its country to it than they will fail. Maybe not now or in 10 years but without a solution that establishes countries of peoples united more by idealogy than geography no measure of liberty from our bloody actions will stand the test of time.

"[The USA went on] in Cuba to support Flgercio Batista and create Fidel Castro; in Vietnam to support Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngugen Van Theiu and end up with Ho Chi Minh and his successors; in Iran to support the Shah and find itself opposed by Ayatollah Khomeini. By taking a militant [...] position, the United States has repeatedly found itself on the side of the oppressors and against the people, or, in other words, against local nationalism.

Paradoxically [...] is seems that the more strenuous are America's efforts to restrain insurrection abroad, the less likely are democratic institutions to flourish."

"American Foreign Policy" by Kegley & Wittkopf, p71

Sectarian policies are already showing up in northern (kurdish) and southern (shiite) Iraq that do not follow the proscribed rule of law in Baghdad. It is foolish to think that these changes will not grow so great in time as to make the tapastry of law and justice dissolve completely as groups choose to ignore the provisional government or rally against it as being illegitimate. Unless the US begins thinking in terms of Kurdistan and talking to the EU about getting Turkey to hand over parts of its country to it than they will fail. Maybe not now or in 10 years but without a solution that establishes countries of peoples united more by idealogy than geography no measure of liberty from our bloody actions will stand the test of time.

the problems were caused by the power supply.

It might be the new Inspector Sands which was used as a coded message to prevent panic.

Mind you, it's not much of a difference from the days when terrorists would go to dinners at the White House, to fundraise, and use the hundreds of thousands of dollars given by misguided "Irish" Americans to buy guns and bombs to kill innocent UK civilians in pubs, bars, shops, and town centres.
Seems to have gone out of favour after 11th Sept 01. Funny how it's not funny when it starts happening to you, isn't it?

One day I hope I will be lucky enough to be able to incorporate a MCF system in a martian habitat. I think it would be cool to have an observation room in the fusion area but shielding for health would be a nightmare. Calling materials science, is there a material scientist in the house?

Urban Legend.

Support for hardware acceleration is not pervasive with GDI and GDI+, this due to driver support, i believe Matrox provides full support for hardware accelerated GDI & GDI+.

See: Matrox Parhelia

The point is this, the operating system windows 2000 has supported pervasive hardware acceleration of the UI since 1999 (W2K was released in 1999). This means that windows supports hardware acceleration of the UI through the APIs of GDI, GDI+ and DirectX. This support was there before it was supported in the Apple OS.

See: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/GDInext.mspx

Driver support for DirectX is pervasive, hardware acceleration with DirectX is pervasive. With longhorn the primary UI will be created through DirectX 10 (WGF).

GDI/GDI+ will remain but will no longer be used to generate the primary UI.

While ebuyer offer good prices, (I use them for personal and business purchases) their customer services are an absolute joke.

It is extremely difficult to find their phone number without first using a search engine like google.

Example.

Try looking elsewhere for your petrol its hovering more around 80p a litre. And I used the real gallon
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&c2coff=1&q=li tres+in+a+uk+gallon&btnG=Search&meta=/ ;-). And my £-$ was off, considerably.

When did you last check the fuel price here in England? I'm paying ~90p per litre at the moment and it will probably continue to rise.

There are 3.79 litres to a US gallon, so that is:
0.90*3.79 = £3.41 per US gallon.

According to xe.com, £1 = $1.77.

£3.41*1.77 = $6.04.

That is somewhat less than the $10 another poster mentioned, but it should give American readers some idea of just how cheap (relatively) their fuel is. Of course a large proportion of our fuel price is made up of tax. This has encouraged some of us to purchase small, fuel efficient cars whilst others can afford to drive around in large SUVs.

Yeah, this guy is sensible. Dismiss him with the contempt he deserves, and go do something more worthwhile - like reading Dilbert or hating on Intarweb Exploder...

what utter twaddle! "try putting an unpatched win98 machine on the net and see how long it takes to get hacked" is about as sensible a statement as the one you just made.

there are things like iptables that tend to not be like your windoze 'firewall', if you can call it such.

by the way, http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&biw= 1272&q=unpatched+linux+windows+hacked&btnG=Search& meta= if you need any references.

funny, though. well done.

We use a couple of simple serial thermometers http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=20&hl=en&safe=o ff&c2coff=1&biw=1152&q=rs-232+thermometer&btnG=Sea rch&meta= and a custom build app to read the serial port and feed the temp into our alerting system which handles our thresholds. This works well for us. I also recommend two aircons with one set to kick in when the temperature gets too high (i.e. when the other fails)

click and drag it..that's whack

Here's one. Wreck Beach in Vancouver. Remember to wipe off the monitor before your mom gets home.