System V Revision 5 was only ever used by Santa Clara Operations. Since nobody else ever used that version of UNIX, it is really irrelevant who owns the copyright on that.
Unix System V was not developed by SCO. It was developed by the original AT&T (not the current company that was renamed to AT&T after they bought part of the old AT&T). Of course, the SCO that exists today is not the same company as you were probably thinking of anyway.
I am aware of the fact that most states have openly available curriculum standards and I am aware that most people are unaware that those standards contain elements that they would find offensive. Concensus means that the overwhelming majority agree with the standard. If the voters of Texas regularly elect officials that disagree with the curriculum standard, that indicates that a concensus does not exist among the people of Texas, or that the concensus among the people of Texas is at odds with what people like you are trying to get taught (take your pick).
Actually, New Orleans was prepared for Katrina. The problem was that the local government failed to implement the existing plans. That being said, the news reports of the devastation were vastly overstated.
There is a significant difference between what teachers want and what the teachers' union wants. The teachers' unions are no more representative of what teachers want than the AARP is representative of what retired persons want.
Of course, that digital version can be edited to only say things that are acceptable today. That means that if a politician writes a book and then rises to significant power and some of the things that he/she wrote in that book are now a liability, those things can be made to have never been written. This is just one example of the problem with all information being in digital format. The same thing can be done to historical facts that become inconvenient to those in power.
Even if you somehow maintain a copy of the digital record from before the editing, how do you demonstrate that the official record is the one that got edited? It is much harder to produce a book with the right patina of age than it is to produce a digital record that is dated as being of a particular age.
No, public schools represent our collective committment to indoctrinating the children into the worldview of those who control the schools (primarily the teachers' union). If public schools were committed to education, they would more readily remove those children who refuse to learn and do their best to interfere with the learning of others. In the U.S. (and quite likely many other countries), the public schools were created to train children to become ideal citizens. As a society, we no longer have a concensus as to what children need to learn in order to become ideal citizens.
I had not thought about it before but public libraries function in socially useful ways that schools cannot. First, people have to seek out the library. This means that most of those there are there because they want to be. This means that the threat of being banned from the library has real teeth. Second, it means that most of those there wish to learn.
I don't think it will be hard to prove "bad faith" considering Righthaven look for rights violations, and then buy up the Copyright license before suing. They also apparently haven't really transferred the Copyright rights correctly.
I believe that your information is incorrect. My understanding is that Righthaven is a corporation created by the owners of the Las Vegas Review Journal (and possibly one or two other media companies, I am not clear on the ownership of the other media outlets connected to Righthaven) for the purpose of suing those who use their copyrighted material. LVRJ transfers the copyright on all of its work to Righthaven in exchange for the right to publish said material. If this is correct, the problem with Righthaven's business model is that a significant portion of Fair Use doctrine involves whether or not the copyright violation interferes with the ability of the copyright owner to profit from the work in question (there is more to it than that, but if you don't interfere with the copyright holder's ability to profit, the bar is much lower for the other necessary peices). Since Righthaven only profits from the copyrights it holds by suing infringers, it is hard for them to argue that someone using their material impedes their ability to profit from it.
DNA is not more accurate. They don't actually take the entire DNA. They just compare a certain number of sub-sections. Typically DNA matches are on the order of "1 in 100,000". Think about that. That means there would be on the order of 30,000 matches in the U.S. That means in Honolulu there would likely be 3-4 matches.
So, in other words, unreliable and inaccurately interpreted. Someone did a study where they sent fingerprint samples to various fingerprint experts. On a second round, 9 out of 10 failed to identify the fingerprints as belonging to the same person as on the first time (the fingerprint experts were unaware that they had previously identified these specific prints).
Unfortunately, constrain does not mean that. The summary could have said, "have managed to prove that its temperature is constrained to...", that would have been a correct usage of the word "constrain". The link does not actually use the word constrain relative to the temperature of the star. And in actuality the articles link say that they have calculated that the temperature of this object is 97 degrees Celsius give or take 40 degrees. Which means that even by your interpretation the summary is wrong because their calculations do not prove that the temperature cannot exceed "slightly less than 100 degrees Celsius."
The first sentence of the summary says they "spotted" the brown dwarf. This implies that it was out there and they observed it. The second sentence says that they managed to "constrain" its temperature. This implies that they have control over its temperature. I think that if they have found a way to control the temperature of a brown dwarf (or any other star) that is bigger news than that this is the coolest brown dwarf they have found.
You are aware that petroleum consists of what we call gasoline and what, as far as I am aware, everyone calls diesel, plus a bunch of other distillation fractions, aren't you? That is where the name OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) comes from.
Actually, I just did a little research and discovered that "petrol" is not short for petroleum. It is actually short for St. Peter's oil and originated as the trade name for gasoline by the British wholesaler Carless, Capel and Leonard (their competitors referred to it as "motor spirit" until the 1930s, which certainly explains why "petrol" became the dominant term).
Again, you don't seem to understand the nature of the problem being discussed. This is not about a person getting lost because their GPS doesn't work. This is about a machine of some sort failing because of its GPS being jammed. If the machine is reliant on the substation, it just stops when the power goes out. How does a machine that relies on GPS behave when all of a sudden it doesn't know where it is?
No, what you don't realize is that the fact of the matter is if those same people had ordered a PC with OSX from Dell or HP, they would have had the same problem. It didn't work the way they were used to and they couldn't install MS Office (Ok, they would not have had that last problem). The thing is that most people do not realize that most of the software they buy for a Windows PC or an OSX PC has a functional equivalent that is free for Linux. The reason why some people who think Linux is hard can use an OSX PC is because they have been marketed that "Macs are easy". My wife uses Ubuntu. She is a typical office drone. She had no more trouble figuring it out than she has with the Mac a friend of ours brings by every now and again. The problem in both cases is that certain things do not work the same as in Windows.
Actually, it is worse than that. There are many automated systems that rely on GPS where there is little or no provision for human intervention should GPS fail. Although you make a good point, people should be able to find their way to routine destinations without GPS, but all too many cannot.
You have not been following the news. According to at least one recent report, the GPS signal is trivially easy to jam. I don't have to knock out the satellite if I can get a jammer into a key location. In addition, a solar flare could function as a worldwide signal jamming device. Somebody with a $50 GPS jamming device could cause a lot of havoc, and they could walk away to do it again.
Consumer friendly would mean at least as easy as Windows (you'd think it's not a high bar), and to have all apps users would want/need.
I have an Ubuntu PC that runs all of the apps I need...and they were all free. The only place that it does not match up is in gaming and my understanding is that if I were to buy Crossover, that would be solved.
As far as ease of use goes, I found it no harder to learn to use than it was to learn to use a Macintosh and everybody keeps telling me that a Mac is easier to use than Windows.
Exactly how do you enforce Article 25? For that matter, how do you accomplish Article 26 without infringing on one of the previous rights?
That declaration is a very religious document and is based on a belief system that not everyone shares. I do not share your world view and based on my experience I consider your worldview to be very unrealistic and lacking in an understanding of basic human nature. I do not see any reason in your worldview to expect that human nature will move from where it is to where your worldview says it should go.
All laws are based on beliefs and there is no way to separate religious beliefs from other beliefs. What one considers to be "common sense". derives from one's world view. One's world view is a product of one's religion. Facts do not provide any direct basis for passign laws. It is not until those facts are passed through a value system that one has something that is the basis for laws.
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System V Revision 5 was only ever used by Santa Clara Operations. Since nobody else ever used that version of UNIX, it is really irrelevant who owns the copyright on that.
Unix System V was not developed by SCO. It was developed by the original AT&T (not the current company that was renamed to AT&T after they bought part of the old AT&T). Of course, the SCO that exists today is not the same company as you were probably thinking of anyway.
I am aware of the fact that most states have openly available curriculum standards and I am aware that most people are unaware that those standards contain elements that they would find offensive. Concensus means that the overwhelming majority agree with the standard. If the voters of Texas regularly elect officials that disagree with the curriculum standard, that indicates that a concensus does not exist among the people of Texas, or that the concensus among the people of Texas is at odds with what people like you are trying to get taught (take your pick).
Actually, New Orleans was prepared for Katrina. The problem was that the local government failed to implement the existing plans. That being said, the news reports of the devastation were vastly overstated.
There is a significant difference between what teachers want and what the teachers' union wants. The teachers' unions are no more representative of what teachers want than the AARP is representative of what retired persons want.
Of course, that digital version can be edited to only say things that are acceptable today. That means that if a politician writes a book and then rises to significant power and some of the things that he/she wrote in that book are now a liability, those things can be made to have never been written. This is just one example of the problem with all information being in digital format. The same thing can be done to historical facts that become inconvenient to those in power.
Even if you somehow maintain a copy of the digital record from before the editing, how do you demonstrate that the official record is the one that got edited? It is much harder to produce a book with the right patina of age than it is to produce a digital record that is dated as being of a particular age.
No, public schools represent our collective committment to indoctrinating the children into the worldview of those who control the schools (primarily the teachers' union). If public schools were committed to education, they would more readily remove those children who refuse to learn and do their best to interfere with the learning of others. In the U.S. (and quite likely many other countries), the public schools were created to train children to become ideal citizens. As a society, we no longer have a concensus as to what children need to learn in order to become ideal citizens.
I had not thought about it before but public libraries function in socially useful ways that schools cannot. First, people have to seek out the library. This means that most of those there are there because they want to be. This means that the threat of being banned from the library has real teeth. Second, it means that most of those there wish to learn.
I don't think it will be hard to prove "bad faith" considering Righthaven look for rights violations, and then buy up the Copyright license before suing. They also apparently haven't really transferred the Copyright rights correctly.
I believe that your information is incorrect. My understanding is that Righthaven is a corporation created by the owners of the Las Vegas Review Journal (and possibly one or two other media companies, I am not clear on the ownership of the other media outlets connected to Righthaven) for the purpose of suing those who use their copyrighted material. LVRJ transfers the copyright on all of its work to Righthaven in exchange for the right to publish said material. If this is correct, the problem with Righthaven's business model is that a significant portion of Fair Use doctrine involves whether or not the copyright violation interferes with the ability of the copyright owner to profit from the work in question (there is more to it than that, but if you don't interfere with the copyright holder's ability to profit, the bar is much lower for the other necessary peices). Since Righthaven only profits from the copyrights it holds by suing infringers, it is hard for them to argue that someone using their material impedes their ability to profit from it.
DNA is not more accurate. They don't actually take the entire DNA. They just compare a certain number of sub-sections. Typically DNA matches are on the order of "1 in 100,000". Think about that. That means there would be on the order of 30,000 matches in the U.S. That means in Honolulu there would likely be 3-4 matches.
So, in other words, unreliable and inaccurately interpreted. Someone did a study where they sent fingerprint samples to various fingerprint experts. On a second round, 9 out of 10 failed to identify the fingerprints as belonging to the same person as on the first time (the fingerprint experts were unaware that they had previously identified these specific prints).
Unfortunately, constrain does not mean that. The summary could have said, "have managed to prove that its temperature is constrained to...", that would have been a correct usage of the word "constrain". The link does not actually use the word constrain relative to the temperature of the star. And in actuality the articles link say that they have calculated that the temperature of this object is 97 degrees Celsius give or take 40 degrees. Which means that even by your interpretation the summary is wrong because their calculations do not prove that the temperature cannot exceed "slightly less than 100 degrees Celsius."
The first sentence of the summary says they "spotted" the brown dwarf. This implies that it was out there and they observed it. The second sentence says that they managed to "constrain" its temperature. This implies that they have control over its temperature. I think that if they have found a way to control the temperature of a brown dwarf (or any other star) that is bigger news than that this is the coolest brown dwarf they have found.
You are aware that petroleum consists of what we call gasoline and what, as far as I am aware, everyone calls diesel, plus a bunch of other distillation fractions, aren't you? That is where the name OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) comes from.
Actually, I just did a little research and discovered that "petrol" is not short for petroleum. It is actually short for St. Peter's oil and originated as the trade name for gasoline by the British wholesaler Carless, Capel and Leonard (their competitors referred to it as "motor spirit" until the 1930s, which certainly explains why "petrol" became the dominant term).
Again, you don't seem to understand the nature of the problem being discussed. This is not about a person getting lost because their GPS doesn't work. This is about a machine of some sort failing because of its GPS being jammed. If the machine is reliant on the substation, it just stops when the power goes out. How does a machine that relies on GPS behave when all of a sudden it doesn't know where it is?
No, what you don't realize is that the fact of the matter is if those same people had ordered a PC with OSX from Dell or HP, they would have had the same problem. It didn't work the way they were used to and they couldn't install MS Office (Ok, they would not have had that last problem). The thing is that most people do not realize that most of the software they buy for a Windows PC or an OSX PC has a functional equivalent that is free for Linux. The reason why some people who think Linux is hard can use an OSX PC is because they have been marketed that "Macs are easy". My wife uses Ubuntu. She is a typical office drone. She had no more trouble figuring it out than she has with the Mac a friend of ours brings by every now and again. The problem in both cases is that certain things do not work the same as in Windows.
Actually, it is worse than that. There are many automated systems that rely on GPS where there is little or no provision for human intervention should GPS fail. Although you make a good point, people should be able to find their way to routine destinations without GPS, but all too many cannot.
You have not been following the news. According to at least one recent report, the GPS signal is trivially easy to jam. I don't have to knock out the satellite if I can get a jammer into a key location. In addition, a solar flare could function as a worldwide signal jamming device. Somebody with a $50 GPS jamming device could cause a lot of havoc, and they could walk away to do it again.
Consumer friendly would mean at least as easy as Windows (you'd think it's not a high bar), and to have all apps users would want/need.
I have an Ubuntu PC that runs all of the apps I need...and they were all free. The only place that it does not match up is in gaming and my understanding is that if I were to buy Crossover, that would be solved.
As far as ease of use goes, I found it no harder to learn to use than it was to learn to use a Macintosh and everybody keeps telling me that a Mac is easier to use than Windows.
We are also too reliant on electricity, computers, cars, airplanes, ships,...
The difference is that those things are not trivial to disable compared to GPS.
So, basically, your worldview doesn't give people a reason to do good, but expects that they will anyway.
I didn't say that I don't. I was asking why, in your world view, I should.
Common sense should tell that this way leads to our own extinction.
Why do you care? And why should I care? I am not in imminent danger of death or even significant interference with the way I choose to live.
Exactly how do you enforce Article 25? For that matter, how do you accomplish Article 26 without infringing on one of the previous rights?
That declaration is a very religious document and is based on a belief system that not everyone shares. I do not share your world view and based on my experience I consider your worldview to be very unrealistic and lacking in an understanding of basic human nature. I do not see any reason in your worldview to expect that human nature will move from where it is to where your worldview says it should go.
People made the same argument back in the 1980s with the Macintosh vs MS Windows PCs. How did that turn out?
All laws are based on beliefs and there is no way to separate religious beliefs from other beliefs. What one considers to be "common sense". derives from one's world view. One's world view is a product of one's religion. Facts do not provide any direct basis for passign laws. It is not until those facts are passed through a value system that one has something that is the basis for laws.