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What Is Public Domain?
whitefox writes: "The Seattle Times has an interesting article in today's edition on what is public domain. After sharing the experience one software writer had with businesses and people shying away from BitTorrent because they didn't understand the concept of 'public domain,' they take the reader on a tour of how public domain is being defined by groups such as Creative Commons and to the battle of copyright-extensions in Eldred v. Ashcroft."
First CLIT post!
Why, I thought this was one of the best scenes in the movie. All my life, I wanted to see Yoda as a real Jedi, rather than just a frail wise old master. This fight was what I have been waiting for from Star Wars for a long time. Finally, you understand that Yoda, although frail physically, has the ability to channel the Force in ways that no other Jedi can, at least as far as we have seen.
I don't think that the fight was in any way a detriment to the character, it actually just enhances his mystique. Besides, the irony of him finishing up bouncing off the walls, only to pick up his cane and hobble around again was *priceless*. What a fucking old green pussy. Hell, *I* could have kicked his wrinkled green....oh no! Yoda?! IEEEEEEE!
Is it just me or is everyone nowdays trying to make money out of adverts on sig lines?
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Go and sew your wild OATS, Everybody
In a long-expected announcement, lead HURD developer Roland McGrath admitted, "We are no longer ... developing ... GNU Mach".
.8 probability that GNU would close up shop within the next 5 years, citing widescale adoption of Windows 2k, as well as competing free licenses such as BSD, artistic, and public domain.
This comes as no surprise. The gartner group predicted a
I expect GNU CEO Richard Stalin to resign under heavy pressure within the next 2 months.
I just read on the german linux site linux.de that former kernel hacker Dieter Von Ostrich has done the impossible - Backreferencing Deterministic regular expressions!
This is great news for perl -- tests with complex regex matching and replacing show a speedup up to 600%, and even simples regexes get a 5-10% boost. Larry Wall has indicated he may incorporate them into perl6, once support for excluded matching is added.
WTG!
What is the issue with Anonymous Coward? I don't get it. And what's up with your name, Lord Kariya? Is that like hockey player Paul Kariya? It's just kinda odd...
Given your acting abilities, Vlade, as seen in the recent Laker series, I doubt that you have to worry about it. What'd you do, go to the Bill Laimbeer School of Acting? Your flops are totally unbelievable!
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.