How about the best historical case of trade secrets being stolen: production methods, most especially in the case of textiles. The end product doesn't tell you how it was made.
That's not how patents work. If you change one thing and patent the new "invention", it's a new patent, completely separate from the original one. You have to reference the original, but there are no fees to be paid.
True. But if you try to create any instances of your patent, then you will have to pay fees to the original patent-holder (or get sued.) See, patents are like class definitions, but to create an instance of that class, you have to pay. You may extend someone else's definition, and then they will need your permission to change it, but you still need to create an instance of the base class with yours.
The Speaker of the House takes over the Presidency if the President and Vice-President were both to become unable to fulfill their offices. At no point does the Speaker of the House become Vice-President. Should the Vice-Presidency become vacant, due to the current Vice-President being unable to fulfill his* duties, or because he* has assumed control of the Presidency, the Vice-Presidency is simply vacant until filled by a nominee of the President and ratification by the Senate.
After the Speaker of the House (Interesting story involving the political rational there) come the Cabinet Officials in order of the creation of the Office, starting with the Secretary of State. Beyond that is codified, but, IIRC, is not published.
Although I disagree with him, he seems to be one of the few people expousing a "If we were to confess our sins to each other, we would laugh at our unoriginality" philosophy in these posts.
It certainly is interesting, and many things that people feel embarassed by is only because other people's privacy makes the normal seem abnormal. And I agree that if we learn to respect minority opinions, this may make sense to me as a philosophy. But I think in any sense for this "privacy -> problems" idea to work, a positive obligation for people to reveal (possibly what they don't even know themselves) must exist.
If everyone who was racist stood up and said so, there may be societal benefits. But I'm willing to bet many racist people don't event know that they are. etc...
... was designed to find pirated versions of windows. Why would they care if a linux user can download the updates. He's not the target. It's the people and companies with fake copies and either don't know it or don't want to go through the trouble of downloading a version of each patch that the WGA step will get to buy Windows. So it probably worked to specs, and probably works via blacklisting rather than whitelisting (easier to disassemble a whitelist for one).
I know its bad form here to defend anything from M$, or announce that a story doesn't really mean their emminet death, but remember that WGA is just another step like serials designed to increase the geekiness or effort required for someone to pirate a copy.
Just like DRM. I mean, you can always use a professional quality camera to capture the movie, and put each output speaker in an anachoic chamber with its own high quality mike. The point of DRM and WGA is to make it hard enough that it's not worth saving the $10 (for bad movies) - $400 (for Vista Ultimate SuperDeluxe w. CoffeeMaker ) after all the effort.
Yeah, but wasn't it pretty well accepted belief back then that you could never break the sound barrier?
Yup. The thought was as planes get closer to the sound barrier, there is a buildup of soundwaves. Evenetually the turbluence would just knock the planes down. Apparently, triangular wings somehow solve this problem. Looking back on it, buildup of turbulence seems trivial compared to increasing mass, but I have no dount that 200 years from now people will look back on the easy way that was circumvented as they debate whether it will ever be possible to break the warp 9.9 barrier or time barrier or somesuch.
At the end of the program, they credit whomever payed to develop the closed captions. Until recently, it was always one government agency (at least, whenever I noticed it. Small sample size warning.) I forgot which one.
Sir, based upon your post, which I took as legal advice absent any statement to the contrary, I opened up a private medical practice in my home. Now, I have been arrested by the police for impersonating a doctor.
I trust that I will be compensated by you for this in some way.
Am I the only one who remember's TechnoBill from Dilbert, who had an amazing array of gadgets in his gadget belt? He then outnerded Dilbert when his fax connected to Dilbert's fax faster than Dilbert could dial his because "Fool, I have autodial". And he had a parabolic dish on a sweatband.
My point was it was only that she inadvertantly did it to herself. If its that easy to get an overreaction, justified or not, by mistake, imagine how much easier it would have been for someone with malice to do it to you.
I've heard stories about employers using Facebook searches. They would get summer associates/recent grads to look up applicants. These stories are anecdotal, but only one degree of seperation, so I believe them (although two for you, so...)
And on/. I heard about a teacher who lost their job because of their MySpace page. Granted, it was a little more detailed than that, as apparently she was directing students to her page, and it had drinking. But in those cases it is idiots posting pictures of themselves.
But I see the discrimination as being an increasing threat due to the relative easy and persistence of spreading rumors anonymously. Employee too vital, get dumped? Now, I know this whole article is about companies that fix the problem for $120-$12,000 a year, but we all know how sucessful Internet censorship is.
So is your objection to IE the fact that it's bundled with Windows, making it the default browser over FF or Opera, or that it's bug-filled? And if it is the former, but it is different because "Microsoft is a monopoly," how is Apple using a similar position to become the dominant OS X browser morally or ethically (not legally) different?
Disclaimer: I think that bundling both Safari and IE was a breach of some kind of ethos best described as componentization.
Teixeira's story began near Lowe's Motor Speedway on May 14. As recreational vehicles streamed in for race week, revenue investigators were checking fuel tanks of diesel RVs for illegal fuel.
The investigators spotted Teixeira's passing bumper sticker: "Powered by 100% vegetable oil."
Is also said:
So last fall the Charlotte musician and guitar instructor spent $1,200 to convert his 1981 diesel Mercede
The only time the word car appeared was talking about the state senator. Or does Mercedes not make RV's? I don't know anything about, well, lets define it as the set of objects that runs on gas.
... that he ever filled up his RV in North Carolina?
I thought criminal matters in the US put the onus on the government to prove that a crime took place, in this case that he had ever purchased biodiseal in North Carolina.
Schools teach you how to use Apple, not Microsoft, products. Outside of CS classes (which were Windows based in HS and Linux in University) all the computers were Macs.
First, the executive summary: In spite of starting by explaining the difference between free as in speech and free as in beer, let me outline why educators should use F/OSS: It's free for the teachers, the students, the insititution, the graduates, and will remain so in the future. Oh, and it's almost as good. Then here's a laundry list of applications that you may want to use that I started tunning out during.
The more detailed summery using his bullet-points:
The Power of the Source: Free as in speech is good
Property Rights Turned Upside Down: Copyleft is good
On the Annoyances of Proprietary Software: Buying licenses is annoying, and people asking if they can pirate off your legit copies is annoying.
Understanding Open Source Software: Filler
Myth: You get what you pay for: With F/OSS you can buy your documention and tech support piecemeal.
Myth: F/OSS software is created by amateurs and must be inferior: Both parts of this arguement are wrong.This marks the last non-poor argument
Myth: With F/OSS I cannot get support: The best support is friends/teachers. Hey, we might have different versions, let me rehash the licensing point.
Myth: Moving to F/OSS will require retraining and relearning: All software UI is practically the same. Look for him contradicting himself soon.
Myth: Students need to learn the standard applications: All the applications you learn now will be out of date when you use them. I'm sure all the artists who spent forever learning Photoshop will love to hear that. Oh, what, it has so much monopoly power that professional computer artists have to learn it to work? Nevermind.
Page 2
Educators Pay for Software - Twice: Complains about licensing costs again. Contradicts his retraining point by insisting that you are teaching students to use only a proprietary solution and getting them locked in or making them throw all their years of training away. But that was the page before, who expects that much consistancy?
raining Teachers on Tools They Do Not Have: Has he mentioned that teachers can use this software free of cost?
On the Allure of Free Proprietary Tools: Sometimes, companies that offer free versions of their program no longer do so. With F/OSS you never have to worry about the dreaded licensing costs
Productivity Applications: OpenOffice is almost as good, all it needs is a grammar checker. It's not as bad as it used to be!...
He then goes on listing applications and their uses, organized fairly well, but I got tired of paraphrasing.
Isn't the F/OSS community capable of having a better spokesman? Or at least reasons that refer back to letting students tinker with applications so they can see how the code/math/grammar checker works? And that teachers can customize the code to tailor fit the school's needs? And... actually, now is when I stop preaching to the choir.
Email infrastructures are melting down under the load. This means that companies are spending dollars on deploying spam filtering software, hardware, more bandwidth, etc. to deal with the problems. This is money that could be better used to hire employees, pursue R&D, improve their facility, etc.
Or some small businesses simply go the g-mail route. It is as professional if you don't examine the headers, and nothing sensitive should be sent unencrypted via e-mail anyway.
Okay, IE was a horrible and evil; an abuse of monopoly power to try to expand onto the internet from the desktop. And if they started bundling Office, I'd be right there with everyone else. But this is always something I thought was a bad part of Windows OSes (leaving aside the "What's a good part?" or "How many bad parts are there?" questions.) To me it's most equivalent to a large car company, say Ford, finally including CD/MP3/AM/FM radios instead of 8-tracks. Even if Ford was a monopoly, and it put out of business all the 3rd party radio resellers:
Ford had been putting a poor version of this feature in their cars for years. They shouldn't be punished for upgrading.
Most people consider a radio integral to the car (as opposed to IE which I will make fuzzy dice in my analogy).
Even if you cannot uninstall the manufacturer's version (which was easy in all previous versions, so I doubt is the case), you can always install a second one because there is plenty of room? What, you want the ability to customize exactly what is running? Get a build-it-yourself kit.
Bottom line, I cannot write my own file system except for on top of NTFS/FAT_32/FAT and have it run with Windows. There are many parts of the OS I don't use, some can be shut down, some replaced, and some neither. But I don't understand the problem.
How do they then? Automatically translating via babelfish or google? In that case, my instructions would be translated as well. Or do they admire the pretty colors?
I suppose they could just be trolling for pornography like 99.5% of all web users, but then none of my sites would interest them.
Nor in American English. Take my comment with a grain of salt, as I always got higher marks in Maths than English. Of course, being on Slashdot, that should be assumed.
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How about the best historical case of trade secrets being stolen: production methods, most especially in the case of textiles. The end product doesn't tell you how it was made.
In Star Trek, someone would come up with a complicated plan, and then someone else would explain it using a simple analogy.
Reference gotten sir, reference gotten.
That's not how patents work. If you change one thing and patent the new "invention", it's a new patent, completely separate from the original one. You have to reference the original, but there are no fees to be paid.
True. But if you try to create any instances of your patent, then you will have to pay fees to the original patent-holder (or get sued.) See, patents are like class definitions, but to create an instance of that class, you have to pay. You may extend someone else's definition, and then they will need your permission to change it, but you still need to create an instance of the base class with yours.
The Speaker of the House takes over the Presidency if the President and Vice-President were both to become unable to fulfill their offices. At no point does the Speaker of the House become Vice-President. Should the Vice-Presidency become vacant, due to the current Vice-President being unable to fulfill his* duties, or because he* has assumed control of the Presidency, the Vice-Presidency is simply vacant until filled by a nominee of the President and ratification by the Senate.
After the Speaker of the House (Interesting story involving the political rational there) come the Cabinet Officials in order of the creation of the Office, starting with the Secretary of State. Beyond that is codified, but, IIRC, is not published.
Extending 4th amendment privacy rights to e-mail has nothing to do with your employer. It only restricts government action.
Although I disagree with him, he seems to be one of the few people expousing a "If we were to confess our sins to each other, we would laugh at our unoriginality" philosophy in these posts.
It certainly is interesting, and many things that people feel embarassed by is only because other people's privacy makes the normal seem abnormal. And I agree that if we learn to respect minority opinions, this may make sense to me as a philosophy. But I think in any sense for this "privacy -> problems" idea to work, a positive obligation for people to reveal (possibly what they don't even know themselves) must exist.
If everyone who was racist stood up and said so, there may be societal benefits. But I'm willing to bet many racist people don't event know that they are. etc...
... was designed to find pirated versions of windows. Why would they care if a linux user can download the updates. He's not the target. It's the people and companies with fake copies and either don't know it or don't want to go through the trouble of downloading a version of each patch that the WGA step will get to buy Windows. So it probably worked to specs, and probably works via blacklisting rather than whitelisting (easier to disassemble a whitelist for one).
I know its bad form here to defend anything from M$, or announce that a story doesn't really mean their emminet death, but remember that WGA is just another step like serials designed to increase the geekiness or effort required for someone to pirate a copy.
Just like DRM. I mean, you can always use a professional quality camera to capture the movie, and put each output speaker in an anachoic chamber with its own high quality mike. The point of DRM and WGA is to make it hard enough that it's not worth saving the $10 (for bad movies) - $400 (for Vista Ultimate SuperDeluxe w. CoffeeMaker ) after all the effort.
In Soviet Russia, lobbyists pay you!
Yup. The thought was as planes get closer to the sound barrier, there is a buildup of soundwaves. Evenetually the turbluence would just knock the planes down. Apparently, triangular wings somehow solve this problem. Looking back on it, buildup of turbulence seems trivial compared to increasing mass, but I have no dount that 200 years from now people will look back on the easy way that was circumvented as they debate whether it will ever be possible to break the warp 9.9 barrier or time barrier or somesuch.
At the end of the program, they credit whomever payed to develop the closed captions. Until recently, it was always one government agency (at least, whenever I noticed it. Small sample size warning.) I forgot which one.
Sir, based upon your post, which I took as legal advice absent any statement to the contrary, I opened up a private medical practice in my home. Now, I have been arrested by the police for impersonating a doctor.
I trust that I will be compensated by you for this in some way.
Am I the only one who remember's TechnoBill from Dilbert, who had an amazing array of gadgets in his gadget belt? He then outnerded Dilbert when his fax connected to Dilbert's fax faster than Dilbert could dial his because "Fool, I have autodial". And he had a parabolic dish on a sweatband.
I am?
My point was it was only that she inadvertantly did it to herself. If its that easy to get an overreaction, justified or not, by mistake, imagine how much easier it would have been for someone with malice to do it to you.
I've heard stories about employers using Facebook searches. They would get summer associates/recent grads to look up applicants. These stories are anecdotal, but only one degree of seperation, so I believe them (although two for you, so...)
And on /. I heard about a teacher who lost their job because of their MySpace page. Granted, it was a little more detailed than that, as apparently she was directing students to her page, and it had drinking. But in those cases it is idiots posting pictures of themselves.
But I see the discrimination as being an increasing threat due to the relative easy and persistence of spreading rumors anonymously. Employee too vital, get dumped? Now, I know this whole article is about companies that fix the problem for $120-$12,000 a year, but we all know how sucessful Internet censorship is.
So is your objection to IE the fact that it's bundled with Windows, making it the default browser over FF or Opera, or that it's bug-filled? And if it is the former, but it is different because "Microsoft is a monopoly," how is Apple using a similar position to become the dominant OS X browser morally or ethically (not legally) different?
Disclaimer: I think that bundling both Safari and IE was a breach of some kind of ethos best described as componentization.
Umm... I did RTFA. Is said:
Is also said:
The only time the word car appeared was talking about the state senator. Or does Mercedes not make RV's? I don't know anything about, well, lets define it as the set of objects that runs on gas.
... that he ever filled up his RV in North Carolina?
I thought criminal matters in the US put the onus on the government to prove that a crime took place, in this case that he had ever purchased biodiseal in North Carolina.
Schools teach you how to use Apple, not Microsoft, products. Outside of CS classes (which were Windows based in HS and Linux in University) all the computers were Macs.
First, the executive summary: In spite of starting by explaining the difference between free as in speech and free as in beer, let me outline why educators should use F/OSS: It's free for the teachers, the students, the insititution, the graduates, and will remain so in the future. Oh, and it's almost as good. Then here's a laundry list of applications that you may want to use that I started tunning out during.
The more detailed summery using his bullet-points:
He then goes on listing applications and their uses, organized fairly well, but I got tired of paraphrasing.
Isn't the F/OSS community capable of having a better spokesman? Or at least reasons that refer back to letting students tinker with applications so they can see how the code/math/grammar checker works? And that teachers can customize the code to tailor fit the school's needs? And... actually, now is when I stop preaching to the choir.
Or some small businesses simply go the g-mail route. It is as professional if you don't examine the headers, and nothing sensitive should be sent unencrypted via e-mail anyway.
Nintendo recently announced (citation missing) a homebrew contest on the Wii.
Makes me glad my roommate bought one, although my arm hurts today...
Okay, IE was a horrible and evil; an abuse of monopoly power to try to expand onto the internet from the desktop. And if they started bundling Office, I'd be right there with everyone else. But this is always something I thought was a bad part of Windows OSes (leaving aside the "What's a good part?" or "How many bad parts are there?" questions.) To me it's most equivalent to a large car company, say Ford, finally including CD/MP3/AM/FM radios instead of 8-tracks. Even if Ford was a monopoly, and it put out of business all the 3rd party radio resellers:
Bottom line, I cannot write my own file system except for on top of NTFS/FAT_32/FAT and have it run with Windows. There are many parts of the OS I don't use, some can be shut down, some replaced, and some neither. But I don't understand the problem.
How do they then? Automatically translating via babelfish or google? In that case, my instructions would be translated as well. Or do they admire the pretty colors?
I suppose they could just be trolling for pornography like 99.5% of all web users, but then none of my sites would interest them.
Nor in American English. Take my comment with a grain of salt, as I always got higher marks in Maths than English. Of course, being on Slashdot, that should be assumed.
If you don't understand English well enough to understand my instructions, you're not going to understand my site.
Or if I care enough to translate the rest of my site, I suppose I could translate the instructions as well.