Thankfully US patents do not have any significance in the EU.
You seemed to miss the point that this patent was filed internationally. Besides, many countries belonging to the UN have patent cooperation treaties in place to recognize international patents. Furthermore, many countries, are reforming their own patent systems to have better compatibility with one another.
So yeah, there are problems with the U.S. patent system. Many of the readers are well aware of our broken system. If the readers on slashdot were not aware of these problems, patents would not be such a popular topic on here. If you think that there are no problems with EU countries' patent systems and laws, then you must be dreaming. More often than you may think, patents in any given country probably has international ramifications.
Slight correction on the top row results, the punctuation does not qualify for the search since it is not on the top row. Top row winner is a tie between "surreptitiously" and "teletypewriters".
I went to college a few years back, in the nineties, and I didn't get paid for an intern job. Neither did any of my classmates. Is that something companies do now?
Same here, I got paid next to nothing for an internship. The total came out to less than minimum wage, for the amount of work per week that I put in. If I recall correctly, I put in 30-40 hours a week and got $5.15 an hour for 10 hours a week. However, I supplemented my income and paid for college, by washing dishes at Subway, and later on, waiting tables at Applebee's in the evenings. I filled in for lazy co-workers, taking their extra shifts whenever I could.
When it came time to look for that first career-path job, I proudly put my food service work on my resume next to my internship. First of all, it demonstrates how hard you are willing to work for potential employers, when you are holding down several jobs to work your way through college. Second, you just never know how many interviewers will come back and say, "I flipped burgers or waited tables through college." That said, I would advise anyone just starting their career to put non-related supplemental work on their resume, at least until they build up 10 years of experience in their field.
Socialists are best represented by lycanthropes, and the Libertarians are most closely tied to any sort of horror from space.
No, that is way off base. Many of the classic space invasion movies were about the communist threat associated with the Red Scare or were about the Cold War. For example, the The Day the Earth Stood Still is a classic example of metaphorical critique of the Cold War and the threat of nations nuking the hell out of each other during that period.
Libertarians do not have a large enough influence, in percentage of voters, to get either direct or metaphorical criticism from Hollywood. Libertarians are like Pauly Shore movies, or really bad documentaries. Sure people watch them, but nobody cares about them, or takes them seriously.
I am a registered Libertarian, and I am in the 1-2% that do take them seriously. However, I can't say the same for Pauly Shore, so perhaps that was a really bad example.
You could type the following, with the same effect. The find command with the -exec switch, is forking off a sub-shell for every argument passed by the find command, the \; or ";" is a command terminator for the sub-shell which is forked off. Depending on the task this could run very, very, very slow. For heavy-duty tasks there is a pretty neat utility shipped with every distribution of Perl, check out find2perl sometime.
To generate pure Perl code to do the same loop, run the following. If you tack on a '| perl', after the find2perl command, it will pipe the generated code straight to the language interpreter and execute.
So I proudly put on a vote Libertarian t-shirt, this morning and wore it all day. I went straight to the polls right after work, the parking lot was crowded, but I only had a 20 minute wait at the polls. Several of the poll workers and others, whom are there to vote, make comments that they like my shirt. I get my ticket from the poll worker, strangely after showing no identification other than my voter registration card made from flimsy yellow poster-board. This is not my first time voting, I always remember having to show at least one additional form of ID.
After I get my ticket, I go stand in line, maybe 15 people in front of me. A poll worker comes up to me, stares blankly at my shirt for at least a minute without saying anything. So I am thinking she must be amused by my shirt, I just stand there waiting for her to say something with this shit-eating grin on my face. Finally, she says, "Sir, I am going to have to ask you to remove your shirt, or turn it inside-out." To which I reply, "I don't think so. Why, would I turn my shirt inside out?" She retorts, "Because it is political." Baffled, I say, "So what, isn't that why we are here?" She says, "Sir, please leave your ticket with a poll worker, go outside, and put on another shirt, or turn your shirt inside-out." I went back and forth with her for a few minutes on this, trying to get more than "it is political" out of her. At one point, I said, "Do I not have a civil right to freely express myself with a corny t-shirt, protected under the First Amendment?" Poll worker would not dignify that question with a response other than rolling her eyes.
After five minutes of this, I give up. I walk up to one of poll workers, hand them my ticket, walk outside and turn my shirt inside-out. I walk back in, grab my ticket and get back in line. At this time, a very cute 18-20 yr. old blonde, turns to me. She, the cute blonde, grins and says, "You know, I can still read it." Which really makes me laugh about this whole situation that was a bit embarrassing.
About 5 minutes later, I go up to vote, hand another poll worker my ticket. This woman, the poll worker at the voting booth, looked like a grizzled old lunchlady. She had fresh stitches in her face, and old monochrome blue-ink tattoos up her arms. In other words, it is probably not a woman you want to mess with. So she is politely showing me how to use this new-fangled electronic voting booth, as I told her, I had only voted with a paper ballot in the past. After she is finished, she laughs and says, "Sorry about your shirt."
I was aware that campaigning outside or near polling places was not legal, otherwise known as electioneering. However, I had never heard of the terms "passive electioneering" for wearing political pins or clothing items, that is until I went home and found it by Google. Is this, in fact, legal in many states? Is this not unconstitutional to deny someone their right to vote for a corny t-shirt. At first, I almost thought the poll worker was going to tell me to cover up my t-shirt, because it said "Libertarian".
Did anyone else have any similar embarrassing or humorous stories from the polls?
The new tool promises to 'continuously monitor your PC for problems and give you the solutions to fix them, in real time.' After testing on several Vista machines with a variety of problems, Maximum PC has written a full report on the Microsoft PC Advisor.
PC Advisor: "I noticed you are running Vista. That is probably the reason for your variety of problems. Would you like to downgrade to Windows XP, for this limited time offer of $99.99? Cancel or Allow?
Windows Firewall: "PC Advisor Repair Tool is trying to reach the Internet. Block or Unblock?"
Windows Defender: "I noticed you are running a program called "PC Advisor", Windows Defender does not recognize this program. Would you like to remove or disable "PC Advisor"?
If you are positive CS is your thing, MIT, Stanford, Harvard and Princeton are far better choices.
Maybe you are talking about some CS other than Computer Science. Most people go to Harvard for Law, Medical, or Business degrees, that is kind of Harvard's shtick. It is not really a school that is known for a great Computer Science or Electrical Engineering curriculum.
Oracle has very specific requirements/recommendations:
1 GB - 2 GB 1.5 times the size of RAM 2 GB - 8 GB Equal to the size of RAM more than 8GB 0.75 times the size of RAM
Our organization just bought 4 database servers with 32 Gb of RAM each. I personally setup and installed the servers. I told the DBA:
This server has 32 Gb of RAM, if your database applications ever has to swap out 24 Gb, then something is seriously wrong. As a matter of fact, I would guess this much swapping would kill I/O throughput for any database application. However, if we have to put another swap partition in there for the Oracle installer; I have set aside enough free space on the disk to satisfy the installer demands.
The DBA agreed with this, and we went with 8 Gb of swap. Haven't had any problems with the server or DB applications for more than 6 months. It is the most heavily utilized server in the entire organization.
For a laptop, I would set the swap to equal or more of the RAM, only if you want to suspend to swap. Depending on the applications, I would say at least half the amount of RAM to double the amount of RAM, within reason. If you have 8 Gb of RAM on a workstation, you probably do not need 16 Gb of swap for everyday use.
Thawte is Debian based. I wonder if they had a problem.
I checked our Thawte keys/certs against the SSL blacklist released by Debian. I checked several from Thawte, and could not find a potential compromised key/cert.
Also, we are a Red Hat customer. I have to agree, I prefer the way Debian handled their incident, versus the way this Red Hat incident is being handled. After reading the Red Hat Security Announcement the details are so vague, I am still not sure of the scope and reach of this vulnerability.
Since last year AMD has made ATI increasingly Linux friendly...
On average, my experience with ATI's drivers kind of go like this:
Maybe get the driver to compile, the first time. Probably not, so I spend an hour browsing help forums looking for similar problems.
Get X configured. Go through a few hundred "black screen of deaths" that locks up the whole damned system, NOT just X Windows. This happens every time you try to restart X Windows with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, run 'X -configure' or a click a logout button in your Window Manager.
Hard reset the system. Because the driver somehow locked up the whole system, I cannot get back over to a console and kill anything.
Boot up into a different runlevel to prevent the display manager from repeating the same problem.
Spend another 2 hours trying to figure out the "black screen of death", and how to stop it.
Give up on acceleration altogether with this ATI driver. A co-worker of mine gave up and is running X Windows in VESA mode until a decent driver is available for his Radeon HD2600.
Compare this to the usual Nvidia install process.
Run the makeself archive, it installs and configures. I Might have to tweak a few things or edit xorg.conf, or XF86Config. Rarely, if I compile and run a brand new kernel release, the driver will not compile. I have had to go look for a patch at least 2, maybe 3 times at the most in the last 6 years.
No, I was not aware of the relation between Samba developers and Likewise Software. But then again, I am having a difficult time finding reference to the Samba project on Likewise' website.
Just to clarify, I am not against supporting Open Source developers with monetary incentives. I just wanted to point out that 99% of the Likewise solution, does in fact, come from the Samba project. For whatever reason, Likewise is not really advertising the fact that what they are selling is Samba support.
Personally, for our organization, it does not make sense to pay Likewise for a turn-key solution. Especially, when we are paying Red Hat for support to get Samba, which does the exact same thing.
The conversation with the boss went something like this: "We can already do the exact same thing with Samba. We are already paying Red Hat for Samba support. Though Likewise may not be coming out and saying it directly, it looks to me like Samba is exactly what they are trying to sell you."
Samba isn't AD support, it uses the old method of logging in that was used with NT4, the name currently escapes my memory.
Samba does work with AD. But there is more than one technology that makes up the whole of AD (LDAP, Kerberos, DCE-RPC/MSRPC).
pam_krb5 can do Kerberos authentication against your AD/Kerb. realm (not part of Samba, but usually part of the system as a whole)
winbindd talks MSRPC for Samba 3. Some, but not all features are available and it can talk Win 2k native RPC (Active Directory). Samba can even resolve usernames over RPC this way, much the same way a domain "member server" works. Try looking at what you can do with the 'net ads' command sometime.
As an alternative to winbindd, you can resolve user information through LDAP. It helps to have Unix schema extensions installed in your AD for certain things. However, Samba can template an account and create a pseudo/etc/passwd entry. Even if that Unix schema is not in place, the account just has to exist in AD.
I believe the NT technology you are referring to may be NTLM or LanManager.
My $boss looked at this likewise software a while back, he didn't buy into it. He started listing off the features, and what all you could do with it. After he was done, I politely said, "Yeah we are doing all of that with our stock RHEL+Samba 3 systems, just fine. There's really no need to buy Kerberos+LDAP+Samba support from another vendor, that is why we pay Red Hat."
After I looked at their site, the only new value I have seen from this product is the graphical management console. On the other hand, I can use the compmgmt MMC snap-in to manage a properly configured Samba 3 server just fine.
The great thing about the rpm package management system on Fedora and Red Hat is, that the source rpms always include the pristine, original sourcecode as provided by upstream. Yeah, source debs have that too.
I would say there are 3 big reasons PGP is not used widespread in the legal community. I'm not trying to make a broad generalization about all lawyers, some are in fact quite computer literate. This is just a few observations I've made working with lawyers.
1) Not all attorneys are technically inclined. Many do not even use technology outside of the scope of a cell phone or PDA. There are usually support staff available to law firms to do the typing and technological heavy-lifting. There are attorneys who have done things a certain way their entire career, and are reluctant to change their ways quickly. Unfortunately, software and training costs may be viewed as expenses rather than assets to the firm. After all, it is the legal staff bringing in the revenue, not the I.T. department.
2) Not only do the attorneys and legal staff need to be aware of technologies such as PGP, but clients would also have to be aware of such technologies to take full advantage of them. Training both legal and support staff on such technologies is time consuming, and may not fit into a busy attorney's schedule. Even if the legal and support staff are up to speed, you still have the hurdle of training clients on such technologies. How do you go about training clients in your firm's privacy policies in respect to e-mail?
3) Billable hours... Resources and time spent on a case can be billed to the client. That means a firm can bill more time on paper for traveling/flying than sending an e-mail.
I think PGP will see more common adoption in the legal world, eventually. As far as I know, attorneys have to do continuing education credits to maintain their state bar status, so training is certainly encouraged. Privacy becomes a major issue when one of the parties, in a CC'ed e-mail, blindly hits reply-all to a sensitive e-mail. It is only a matter of time before more firms adopt more stringent communication policies.
I hope to God, nobody is still using Vista in 2015
Apparently, in the year 2015, everyone will refer to a tablet PC as a laptop
Unless there are serious advancements in LCD durability in the next 7 years; there might be a bit of a design problem with using an LCD panel as a keyboard.
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You seemed to miss the point that this patent was filed internationally. Besides, many countries belonging to the UN have patent cooperation treaties in place to recognize international patents. Furthermore, many countries, are reforming their own patent systems to have better compatibility with one another.
So yeah, there are problems with the U.S. patent system. Many of the readers are well aware of our broken system. If the readers on slashdot were not aware of these problems, patents would not be such a popular topic on here. If you think that there are no problems with EU countries' patent systems and laws, then you must be dreaming. More often than you may think, patents in any given country probably has international ramifications.
Good catch, I wonder what is syntactically incorrect with my egrep command? That should not be happening.
Slight correction on the top row results, the punctuation does not qualify for the search since it is not on the top row. Top row winner is a tie between "surreptitiously" and "teletypewriters".
I RTFA and didn't find any mention of this supposed word, anywhere. So I ran my own grep on the dictionary.
Left hand results:
Right hand results:
Top row results
Same here, I got paid next to nothing for an internship. The total came out to less than minimum wage, for the amount of work per week that I put in. If I recall correctly, I put in 30-40 hours a week and got $5.15 an hour for 10 hours a week. However, I supplemented my income and paid for college, by washing dishes at Subway, and later on, waiting tables at Applebee's in the evenings. I filled in for lazy co-workers, taking their extra shifts whenever I could.
When it came time to look for that first career-path job, I proudly put my food service work on my resume next to my internship. First of all, it demonstrates how hard you are willing to work for potential employers, when you are holding down several jobs to work your way through college. Second, you just never know how many interviewers will come back and say, "I flipped burgers or waited tables through college." That said, I would advise anyone just starting their career to put non-related supplemental work on their resume, at least until they build up 10 years of experience in their field.
Socialists are best represented by lycanthropes, and the Libertarians are most closely tied to any sort of horror from space.
No, that is way off base. Many of the classic space invasion movies were about the communist threat associated with the Red Scare or were about the Cold War. For example, the The Day the Earth Stood Still is a classic example of metaphorical critique of the Cold War and the threat of nations nuking the hell out of each other during that period.
Libertarians do not have a large enough influence, in percentage of voters, to get either direct or metaphorical criticism from Hollywood. Libertarians are like Pauly Shore movies, or really bad documentaries. Sure people watch them, but nobody cares about them, or takes them seriously.
I am a registered Libertarian, and I am in the 1-2% that do take them seriously. However, I can't say the same for Pauly Shore, so perhaps that was a really bad example.
Klaatu, Barada, Nikto!
ls -l 'locate gcc' // Output would give you a long listing of wherever gcc is located
Maybe it is just my font, but I think those should be backticks. Variables and commands cannot interpolate strings with single quotes ''.
Backticks, however, will allow command output redirection.
ls -l `locate gcc`
You could write it this way, but you threw in double-quotes and do not really need them here.
find ~/tvshows -name doctor\*who\* -exec mplayer -fs "{}" ";"
You could type the following, with the same effect. The find command with the -exec switch, is forking off a sub-shell for every argument passed by the find command, the \; or ";" is a command terminator for the sub-shell which is forked off. Depending on the task this could run very, very, very slow. For heavy-duty tasks there is a pretty neat utility shipped with every distribution of Perl, check out find2perl sometime.
find ~/tvshows -name "doctor*who*" -exec mplayer -fs {} \;
To generate pure Perl code to do the same loop, run the following. If you tack on a '| perl', after the find2perl command, it will pipe the generated code straight to the language interpreter and execute.
find2perl ~/tvshows -name "doctor*who*" -exec mplayer -fs {} \;
So I proudly put on a vote Libertarian t-shirt, this morning and wore it all day. I went straight to the polls right after work, the parking lot was crowded, but I only had a 20 minute wait at the polls. Several of the poll workers and others, whom are there to vote, make comments that they like my shirt. I get my ticket from the poll worker, strangely after showing no identification other than my voter registration card made from flimsy yellow poster-board. This is not my first time voting, I always remember having to show at least one additional form of ID.
After I get my ticket, I go stand in line, maybe 15 people in front of me. A poll worker comes up to me, stares blankly at my shirt for at least a minute without saying anything. So I am thinking she must be amused by my shirt, I just stand there waiting for her to say something with this shit-eating grin on my face. Finally, she says, "Sir, I am going to have to ask you to remove your shirt, or turn it inside-out." To which I reply, "I don't think so. Why, would I turn my shirt inside out?" She retorts, "Because it is political." Baffled, I say, "So what, isn't that why we are here?" She says, "Sir, please leave your ticket with a poll worker, go outside, and put on another shirt, or turn your shirt inside-out." I went back and forth with her for a few minutes on this, trying to get more than "it is political" out of her. At one point, I said, "Do I not have a civil right to freely express myself with a corny t-shirt, protected under the First Amendment?" Poll worker would not dignify that question with a response other than rolling her eyes.
After five minutes of this, I give up. I walk up to one of poll workers, hand them my ticket, walk outside and turn my shirt inside-out. I walk back in, grab my ticket and get back in line. At this time, a very cute 18-20 yr. old blonde, turns to me. She, the cute blonde, grins and says, "You know, I can still read it." Which really makes me laugh about this whole situation that was a bit embarrassing.
About 5 minutes later, I go up to vote, hand another poll worker my ticket. This woman, the poll worker at the voting booth, looked like a grizzled old lunchlady. She had fresh stitches in her face, and old monochrome blue-ink tattoos up her arms. In other words, it is probably not a woman you want to mess with. So she is politely showing me how to use this new-fangled electronic voting booth, as I told her, I had only voted with a paper ballot in the past. After she is finished, she laughs and says, "Sorry about your shirt."
I was aware that campaigning outside or near polling places was not legal, otherwise known as electioneering. However, I had never heard of the terms "passive electioneering" for wearing political pins or clothing items, that is until I went home and found it by Google. Is this, in fact, legal in many states? Is this not unconstitutional to deny someone their right to vote for a corny t-shirt. At first, I almost thought the poll worker was going to tell me to cover up my t-shirt, because it said "Libertarian".
Did anyone else have any similar embarrassing or humorous stories from the polls?
The media will have us believe that we can only choose between Coke and Pepsi. What BS!!!!
Amen, brother. Vote for Dr. Pepper and Sprite on November 4th!
Visual Basic 6.
The new tool promises to 'continuously monitor your PC for problems and give you the solutions to fix them, in real time.' After testing on several Vista machines with a variety of problems, Maximum PC has written a full report on the Microsoft PC Advisor.
PC Advisor: "I noticed you are running Vista. That is probably the reason for your variety of problems. Would you like to downgrade to Windows XP, for this limited time offer of $99.99? Cancel or Allow?
Windows Firewall: "PC Advisor Repair Tool is trying to reach the Internet. Block or Unblock?"
Windows Defender: "I noticed you are running a program called "PC Advisor", Windows Defender does not recognize this program. Would you like to remove or disable "PC Advisor"?
If you are positive CS is your thing, MIT, Stanford, Harvard and Princeton are far better choices.
Maybe you are talking about some CS other than Computer Science. Most people go to Harvard for Law, Medical, or Business degrees, that is kind of Harvard's shtick. It is not really a school that is known for a great Computer Science or Electrical Engineering curriculum.
Oracle has very specific requirements/recommendations:
Our organization just bought 4 database servers with 32 Gb of RAM each. I personally setup and installed the servers. I told the DBA:
The DBA agreed with this, and we went with 8 Gb of swap. Haven't had any problems with the server or DB applications for more than 6 months. It is the most heavily utilized server in the entire organization.
For a laptop, I would set the swap to equal or more of the RAM, only if you want to suspend to swap. Depending on the applications, I would say at least half the amount of RAM to double the amount of RAM, within reason. If you have 8 Gb of RAM on a workstation, you probably do not need 16 Gb of swap for everyday use.
Today that would be 567.98 troy pounds
Thawte is Debian based. I wonder if they had a problem.
I checked our Thawte keys/certs against the SSL blacklist released by Debian. I checked several from Thawte, and could not find a potential compromised key/cert.
Also, we are a Red Hat customer. I have to agree, I prefer the way Debian handled their incident, versus the way this Red Hat incident is being handled. After reading the Red Hat Security Announcement the details are so vague, I am still not sure of the scope and reach of this vulnerability.
Is this the oil rig you were thinking?
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/strip-fans,1203.html
Since last year AMD has made ATI increasingly Linux friendly...
On average, my experience with ATI's drivers kind of go like this:
Compare this to the usual Nvidia install process.
No, I was not aware of the relation between Samba developers and Likewise Software. But then again, I am having a difficult time finding reference to the Samba project on Likewise' website.
Just to clarify, I am not against supporting Open Source developers with monetary incentives. I just wanted to point out that 99% of the Likewise solution, does in fact, come from the Samba project. For whatever reason, Likewise is not really advertising the fact that what they are selling is Samba support.
Personally, for our organization, it does not make sense to pay Likewise for a turn-key solution. Especially, when we are paying Red Hat for support to get Samba, which does the exact same thing.
The conversation with the boss went something like this: "We can already do the exact same thing with Samba. We are already paying Red Hat for Samba support. Though Likewise may not be coming out and saying it directly, it looks to me like Samba is exactly what they are trying to sell you."
You must be new here.
Samba isn't AD support, it uses the old method of logging in that was used with NT4, the name currently escapes my memory.
Samba does work with AD. But there is more than one technology that makes up the whole of AD (LDAP, Kerberos, DCE-RPC/MSRPC).
I believe the NT technology you are referring to may be NTLM or LanManager.
My $boss looked at this likewise software a while back, he didn't buy into it. He started listing off the features, and what all you could do with it. After he was done, I politely said, "Yeah we are doing all of that with our stock RHEL+Samba 3 systems, just fine. There's really no need to buy Kerberos+LDAP+Samba support from another vendor, that is why we pay Red Hat."
After I looked at their site, the only new value I have seen from this product is the graphical management console. On the other hand, I can use the compmgmt MMC snap-in to manage a properly configured Samba 3 server just fine.
I would say there are 3 big reasons PGP is not used widespread in the legal community. I'm not trying to make a broad generalization about all lawyers, some are in fact quite computer literate. This is just a few observations I've made working with lawyers.
1) Not all attorneys are technically inclined. Many do not even use technology outside of the scope of a cell phone or PDA. There are usually support staff available to law firms to do the typing and technological heavy-lifting. There are attorneys who have done things a certain way their entire career, and are reluctant to change their ways quickly. Unfortunately, software and training costs may be viewed as expenses rather than assets to the firm. After all, it is the legal staff bringing in the revenue, not the I.T. department.
2) Not only do the attorneys and legal staff need to be aware of technologies such as PGP, but clients would also have to be aware of such technologies to take full advantage of them. Training both legal and support staff on such technologies is time consuming, and may not fit into a busy attorney's schedule. Even if the legal and support staff are up to speed, you still have the hurdle of training clients on such technologies. How do you go about training clients in your firm's privacy policies in respect to e-mail?
3) Billable hours... Resources and time spent on a case can be billed to the client. That means a firm can bill more time on paper for traveling/flying than sending an e-mail.
I think PGP will see more common adoption in the legal world, eventually. As far as I know, attorneys have to do continuing education credits to maintain their state bar status, so training is certainly encouraged. Privacy becomes a major issue when one of the parties, in a CC'ed e-mail, blindly hits reply-all to a sensitive e-mail. It is only a matter of time before more firms adopt more stringent communication policies.