There are so many owners, millions in many cases, that it's impossible for the owners to exercise control, even if they wanted to. So they elect a board of directors instead, who hires executives to actually run it.
What does that text remind me of? Oh yes - a representative democracy.
Could some sort of protection be made against this? (Portable Faraday cage, maybe?) If not, what's to prevent one of these falling into the black market and eventually being used on Police?
Holding a wet T-shirt in front of you would stop the ray.
Napalm is not used anymore by the US. It has too much of a bad name going with it. Instead, the US uses Mk-77 incendiary bombs. These contain a mixture with kerosene instead of gasoline. Works as well though.
To my knowlege, the Mk-77 has not been used inside the US. But apparently 500 of them were used by the marines in the last gulf war.
I'm sure tweaking the system and getting it to work with large amounts of data was not trivial.
But does this make it worth a patent?
The idea behind patents was to give people an incentive to share their inventions by granting a temporary monopoly on their implementation. But is sharing this invention in the form of a patent worth anything? If you had to implement the system after another company filed an application with an identical text, would it have substancially reduced the work you had to put into it?
The answer is to have redundancy at distributed locations. Have a backup server at a hosting provider and copy the data over the network. The hosting provider can be around half of the globe, and you can tightly secure a dedicated backup server. It should even be possible to do a continuous backup over the network.
For a personal archive, you can also consider to carry a copy of your backup media to a bank vault.
PS: I seem to have been mistaken about the age of consent in the Netherlands. It is 16 and is pretty much in line with other European countries. Inside Europe, Spain seems to have the lowest age of consent - 13. I'm quite surprised.
Does anybody know whether child porn is a well defined term in (US) law? I would assume that child porn is material depicting sexual acts etc. with people below the age of consent. And that the relevant age of consent is that of the state the viewer lives in.
This would mean that f.e. viewing porn legally produced in the Netherlands would be a crime in most of the world. Some countries have an age of consent as high as 21. So visiting pretty much any porn site could get you in trouble in such a country.
If we all agreed to live under a system of rules we could justify every action that our government makes mathematically. But how do you agree on the axioms? We come back to democracy.
Why should all people agree on just one system of rules? Wouldn't it be better to choose a system of rules we're willing to follow individually? With only a low common denominator in the rules, several cultures or subcultures can exist in parallel.
It is true that all the tools you mentioned are under the GPL. However, software you develop with Linux, GCC or Emacs typically do not inherit the GPL (there are special allowances in the Linux license and you don't link against the other tools). If you link against the GPL version of Qt, you inherit the GPL license.
The one compay I know that claims to produce clear diamonds, using vapor deposition is Apollo. But the company is pretty secretive and basically no one had a chance to evaluate the claims. Apparently they're still growing a diamond seeding plate with a large enough diameter to make the process commercially viable.
As it turns out, Burt Rutan is still fighting for the right to even present the design of the SpaceShip II to Virgin. He's blocked by export regulations, because his joyride shuttles are now considered to have military relevance.
I know it never pays to underestimate human stupidity.
But non the less - I wonder if people can really be this stupid. Perhaps making people think they accessed confidential information is just a trick so the report seems more believeale.
1. Select View->Toolbars->Customize... from the main menu and drag the search field from the toolbar.
2. Create bookmarks with keywords for your searches. Several are predefined. If you want to f.e. have a quick way to search goggle images, go to images.google.com and right-click the entry field. Select "Add a Keyword" from the context menu, and enter "gi" into the Keyword field of the dialog.
Typing "gi whales" into the address bar now searches google for images of whales.
You don't infringe upon the patent when you tell other people about this method to prepare a sandwich.
You infringe upon the patent when you use this method to create your sandwich without having obtained a license. The idea of patent law is explicitly to make inventions public knowledge. If you would not have figured out how to prepare the sandwich, you could have searched the USPTO database for an appropriate method.
You seem to confuse patent law with the DMCA, where you're not allowed to inform about how to cicumvent copy protection measures. Or maybe you confuse it with the PATRIOT act, where you're not allowed to disclose that you have been searched etc.
You have a young daughter and you keep a firearm under your pillow? I think this practice endangers your daughter more than any thief. Please store your firearms in a safe.
The unreasonable part is that Scrabble was developed in the 1920s and was first published in 1948. That's over 50 years ago. It has become a part of the western cultures, and should be in the public domain.
Granting copyright protection to the game does no longer help to "advance the progress of science and the useful arts to benefit the public".
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Every good perpetuum mobile is covered with a catalyst that turns CO2 int C and O2.
There are so many owners, millions in many cases, that it's impossible for the owners to exercise control, even if they wanted to. So they elect a board of directors instead, who hires executives to actually run it.
What does that text remind me of?
Oh yes - a representative democracy.
AFAIK current exploits exist only for the MS Java VM. So installing the Sun Java VM would secure the system against current exploits.
So your friend could have both, a secure PC and Java. As far as I am aware, Suns Java VM had extremely few exploits so far.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
And, apparently, in the current war in Iraq too.
That's what I meant. I always get confused by the US nomenclature of the wars around Iraq. Apparently the Iran-Irak war has been forgotten anyway.
Could some sort of protection be made against this? (Portable Faraday cage, maybe?) If not, what's to prevent one of these falling into the black market and eventually being used on Police?
Holding a wet T-shirt in front of you would stop the ray.
Napalm is not used anymore by the US. It has too much of a bad name going with it. Instead, the US uses Mk-77 incendiary bombs. These contain a mixture with kerosene instead of gasoline. Works as well though.
To my knowlege, the Mk-77 has not been used inside the US. But apparently 500 of them were used by the marines in the last gulf war.
Please get your facts straight.
I'm sure tweaking the system and getting it to work with large amounts of data was not trivial.
But does this make it worth a patent?
The idea behind patents was to give people an incentive to share their inventions by granting a temporary monopoly on their implementation.
But is sharing this invention in the form of a patent worth anything? If you had to implement the system after another company filed an application with an identical text, would it have substancially reduced the work you had to put into it?
The Google headquarters, according to Google.
Where Google is registered, according to whois.
The answer is to have redundancy at distributed locations. Have a backup server at a hosting provider and copy the data over the network. The hosting provider can be around half of the globe, and you can tightly secure a dedicated backup server. It should even be possible to do a continuous backup over the network.
For a personal archive, you can also consider to carry a copy of your backup media to a bank vault.
PS: I seem to have been mistaken about the age of consent in the Netherlands. It is 16 and is pretty much in line with other European countries. Inside Europe, Spain seems to have the lowest age of consent - 13.
I'm quite surprised.
Does anybody know whether child porn is a well defined term in (US) law? I would assume that child porn is material depicting sexual acts etc. with people below the age of consent. And that the relevant age of consent is that of the state the viewer lives in.
This would mean that f.e. viewing porn legally produced in the Netherlands would be a crime in most of the world.
Some countries have an age of consent as high as 21. So visiting pretty much any porn site could get you in trouble in such a country.
If we all agreed to live under a system of rules we could justify every action that our government makes mathematically. But how do you agree on the axioms? We come back to democracy.
Why should all people agree on just one system of rules? Wouldn't it be better to choose a system of rules we're willing to follow individually? With only a low common denominator in the rules, several cultures or subcultures can exist in parallel.
If the above claim was true, Nokia would gain nothing by the patent system. They'd just be sinking money so they can't be attacked.
Why then is Nokia agressively lobbying for software patents in Europe?
It is true that all the tools you mentioned are under the GPL. However, software you develop with Linux, GCC or Emacs typically do not inherit the GPL (there are special allowances in the Linux license and you don't link against the other tools). If you link against the GPL version of Qt, you inherit the GPL license.
So the situation is not comparable at all.
The one compay I know that claims to produce clear diamonds, using vapor deposition is Apollo. But the company is pretty secretive and basically no one had a chance to evaluate the claims. Apparently they're still growing a diamond seeding plate with a large enough diameter to make the process commercially viable.
As it turns out, Burt Rutan is still fighting for the right to even present the design of the SpaceShip II to Virgin. He's blocked by export regulations, because his joyride shuttles are now considered to have military relevance.
I know it never pays to underestimate human stupidity.
But non the less - I wonder if people can really be this stupid. Perhaps making people think they accessed confidential information is just a trick so the report seems more believeale.
I got a Micro Mini 64. It's small and stylish.
But the chain broke soon after I bought it,
and it doesn't reliably stay closed.
That's why I currently don't carry it with my
keys as I planned.
This feature is being worked on and should ship with Firefox 1.1 .
1. Select View->Toolbars->Customize... from the main menu and drag the search field from the toolbar.
2. Create bookmarks with keywords for your searches. Several are predefined. If you want to f.e. have a quick way to search goggle images, go to images.google.com and right-click the entry field. Select "Add a Keyword" from the context menu, and enter "gi" into the Keyword field of the dialog.
Typing "gi whales" into the address bar now searches google for images of whales.
Apparently Apple is right at the frontier again and has added JPEG2000 support.
Kudos for that. No one has dared before. Let the patent lawsuits fly.
You don't infringe upon the patent when you tell other people about this method to prepare a sandwich.
You infringe upon the patent when you use this method to create your sandwich without having obtained a license. The idea of patent law is explicitly to make inventions public knowledge. If you would not have figured out how to prepare the sandwich, you could have searched the USPTO database for an appropriate method.
You seem to confuse patent law with the DMCA, where you're not allowed to inform about how to cicumvent copy protection measures. Or maybe you confuse it with the PATRIOT act, where you're not allowed to disclose that you have been searched etc.
You have a young daughter and you keep a firearm under your pillow?
I think this practice endangers your daughter more than any thief. Please store your firearms in a safe.
The unreasonable part is that Scrabble was developed in the 1920s and was first published in 1948. That's over 50 years ago. It has become a part of the western cultures, and should be in the public domain.
Granting copyright protection to the game does no longer help to "advance the progress of science and the useful arts to benefit the public".
I wonder what would happen if you get into a christian church, and complain about not mentioning scientific theories when preaching about the genesis.