Tellow Dog seems to be the most popular of the Mac-specific Linux Distros, so you too can join in the fun. Pick up your plush penguin to the left, your empty pizza box to the right, and your random piece of bizarre hardware you can't live without but no one you know has ever heard of through the door labeled "Keep Out".
The Integrated Data Retrieval System had been part of the American tax administration since the mid 60s. It's not 40 years old yet, but it probably will be before it is replaced.
Nah. The confusion is short lived. After the initial encounter, the Texan food kills and disposes of the French food, prints out a copy of its own MSDS, and enjoys a job well done.
This isn't compulsory licensing.Compulsory licensing is the creation of a legal ceiling on the price of a license.
For example, let's say I have a band, perhaps "Alien Ant Farm". Further, let us assume that I have taken leave of my senses, and wish to cover a Michael Jackson tune. Extant compulsory licensing laws are what permit me to cover "Smooth Criminal" for a set price per album sold, regardless of what the Gloved one or his lawyers may wish.
There is one catch, though. The gotcha is that the compulsory license only covers the originally published arrangement.
To take an example, let's say that I'm such a severe alcoholic that Metallica kicked me out in 1983, and that I have gone on to have some success with a competing enterprise of my own, called "Megadeth". Further, again suppose I have taken leave of my senses and wish to cover a song originally recorded by Nancy Sinatra in 1966. I can cover the song, but if I want to throw in additional lyrics, then Lee Hazelwood (who wrote the song), can and probably will successfully sue me for corruptiing "These Boots were Made for Walkin'."
This is a very easy position to take. However, it falls down on a couple of important points.
Ethics are not the same the world over. If X can be discovered with current technology, then someone somewhere (probably several someones in several somewheres) are busily discovering X as we speak. If X can be used as a weapon, then you can be doubly sure of this. You cannot halt the progress of science. In a 'best case', you can halt the progress of science by law-abiding and well-intentioned people. This is worse than the alternative.
Yes, new technologies do pose threats to our way of life. Usually, these disruptions are for the good. In the case where they are for ill, then it behooves us to understand them, rather than to intentionally blind ourselves to them.
Imagine a scenario where terrorists could alter a disease or organic biological weapon gene by gene to make it immune to current antidotes. Imagine further a victim nation whose biologists shrug their collective shoulders and say, "We know nothing about plague engineering. Try next door, it's legal there."
I don't know if the eGenesis folks are planning any side projects once the Second Telling starts, but you shouldn't feel like you are behind.
Here's the biggest thing you missed:
Building the first pottery wheel. The amount of effort that went into building said pottery wheel was massive, and took several people several days to manage. Serious chicken/egg issues.
Modern Egypt:
1>Get someone to give you a medium stone (they are cheap, often free)
2>Get some leather from a UWorship, or buy some (not cheap, but by no means expensive)
3>Walk 10 minutes in any direction and you'll trip over a public rock saw. Use it to make flystones.
4>A little oil, a few bricks, and bam. Pottery wheel.
Ancient Egypt:
1>Find a medium stone lying on the ground somewhere (long project, as most stones come from under the ground)
2>Gather flint. You need 70. You have a 5% chance of getting one piece of flint each time you gather clay. You must run to a water source each time you gather clay, as you only have one jug of water to soften the ground with. Use the flint to build a rock saw.
3>Get leather, which may or may not include inventing sheep ranching.
4>A little oil, a few bricks, &c.
Catching up is a lot simpler than many folk realize. All you need to do is make some friends. Most things are relatively deflationary, especially at a newbies tech level. Alternatively, you could join a guild and be instantly caught up.
Unfortunately, these are not spammers who are being forced to pack up and go home, but the operators of black-hole lists. This is, unfortunately a victory for the junkmailers. I find it depressing that they were able to get away with such criminal behavior.
Somewhat related to the above:
What level of relation is there between the Corinthian and Croup/Vandemar, creatively?
You indicated during an interview for Neverwhere, that Croup and Vandermar had appeared in a work which you had begun some years earlier, but never finished. In your graphic work, the Corinthian seems to play a similar role to these two happy sociopaths for hire.
That is exactly what the pad drying out causes. There is a goofy-looking cardboard syringe tool that HP will send you for free to fix the problem. Their website has the details, but you will have to search for it.
Back on topic, there needs to be more cleanly accesible Font server information available. For example, I'm not completely sure my own system has less than two running.:(
Be honest. What do you hope to accomplish with this? If you don't like something about Slashdot, post a suggestion, or write an 'Ask Slashdot' so we can all discuss the issue.
If you have a problem with the moderation system, please consider that moderators are not the only ones who read at -1. In fact, if you believe the moderation system serves to quash dissenting viewpoints, then why make it painful for people to bypass modrration entirely by browsing at -1?
If you're just trying to be puerile, so be it. But if you have a point, please share.
The problem with this is that you get burglar alarm circuits. They are they same as voice, but have different rules. If the ILEC finds out you're using them for DSL, they'll just load them, which is perfectly legal (after all, it enhaces the range for voice), but will squash your project flatter than a pancake.
1.Video Games are "expressive works". This makes them copyrightable. IMHO, this also make them "speech" as in "Beer". Here is where the Judge lays hand on ye olde rainbow-colored crackpipe.
2.This law places limits on an expressive work, in a non content-agnostic way. If the work in question is "speech", then such limits are in violation of the First Amendment, and therefore illegal, absent a compelling interest.
3.Depictions of explicit sexual behavior or violence do not, in themselves, qualify as "obscenity", nor as "fighting words".
R.If this class of expressive work is "speech", then the law is bunk.
I understand that you were being sarcastic, but the point is a good one. These buildings were designed with short-duration catastrophes in mind. A missile wouldn't have succeeded, but a 767 did. Whether this speaks well of a design that can withstand a heavy impact, or whether it speaks poorly of a design that cannot withstand a kerosene fire, I don't know.
However, now that a 'proof of concept' attack has been performed, it will be interesting to see what engineering tricks can be used to keep a tower standing when a barely sub-nuclear blaze is allowed to burn inside it for an hour or two.
The primary impetus for this coming round of upgrades is a new application, the one which requires the X Server to run. The idea behind it is to add a layer of abstraction between the users, and the legacy app from hell, the one which requires a UTS60 emulator, with an eye toward banishing the foul thing. Of course, Exceed is a real pig, as always. Everybody has the office suite, but most only use it to read.ppts and.docs on the Intranet. The rest use it to POST.ppts and.docs to the Intranet.
1. As other posters have mentioned, broadband's killer apps are gaming, and to a lesser extent, serving(P2P mainly). These depend on upstream latency and banswidth respecively. 56k just doesn't cut it.
2. They did the roll out in Cincinnati. Cincinnati has 3 regional cable providers, all of whom provide Internet access(even if one of them is Insight@Home), a constant churn of CLEC DSL providers, and one of the few ILECs in the country to not have its head lodged in the usual place (Not that Broadwing/Cincinnati Bell doesn't have issues, this just isn't one of them.)
3. They did the roll out in Cincinnati?
I live in the Metro area. I watch WKRC-TV. This is the first I've heard of this. This is par for the course for Clear Channel.
Quantum effects happen over distances that are significantly smaller than the 'diameter' of an electron, a couple orders of magnitude smaller than an atom, much less a 60+ molecule buckytube.
It is clear, to both sides, that the copyright system is broken, although the two sides disagree as to how. What is needed is, I believe, some way to balance the intrests of the corporations on one side, and the people on the other.
While I believe the most egregious pieces of the current trade alphabet soup need to be elminated, I think a longer-term solution would be the restructuring of copyright duration.
Rather than making copyrights last for some large X number of years, or the life of the author + X years, why not make a copyright short term, but infinately renewable, at an exponentially increasing cost? This will allow corps to protect their most valuable content, while forcing them to relinquish claims on anything that does not sell enough to cover the cost of renewing its copyright.
I do not claim to know what durations and costs would be required to make it work, here balancing the needs of the small publisher for protection, with the need for a large corps content to expire sometime, but I think it's an idea that's worth a thought.
Perfect knowledge and the ability to avoid unintended consequences, what is the one thing you would add to or remove from Slashdot? Would you edit the mod systems, make everyone ACs, or perhaps send all the trolls here?
Slashdot Mirror
Tellow Dog seems to be the most popular of the Mac-specific Linux Distros, so you too can join in the fun. Pick up your plush penguin to the left, your empty pizza box to the right, and your random piece of bizarre hardware you can't live without but no one you know has ever heard of through the door labeled "Keep Out".
Given that the deal calls for US troops to guard the blasted thing, I can understand opposition to a site with military goals different from the US's.
The Integrated Data Retrieval System had been part of the American tax administration since the mid 60s. It's not 40 years old yet, but it probably will be before it is replaced.
Nah. The confusion is short lived. After the initial encounter, the Texan food kills and disposes of the French food, prints out a copy of its own MSDS, and enjoys a job well done.
For example, let's say I have a band, perhaps "Alien Ant Farm". Further, let us assume that I have taken leave of my senses, and wish to cover a Michael Jackson tune. Extant compulsory licensing laws are what permit me to cover "Smooth Criminal" for a set price per album sold, regardless of what the Gloved one or his lawyers may wish.
There is one catch, though. The gotcha is that the compulsory license only covers the originally published arrangement.
To take an example, let's say that I'm such a severe alcoholic that Metallica kicked me out in 1983, and that I have gone on to have some success with a competing enterprise of my own, called "Megadeth". Further, again suppose I have taken leave of my senses and wish to cover a song originally recorded by Nancy Sinatra in 1966. I can cover the song, but if I want to throw in additional lyrics, then Lee Hazelwood (who wrote the song), can and probably will successfully sue me for corruptiing "These Boots were Made for Walkin'."
Ethics are not the same the world over. If X can be discovered with current technology, then someone somewhere (probably several someones in several somewheres) are busily discovering X as we speak. If X can be used as a weapon, then you can be doubly sure of this. You cannot halt the progress of science. In a 'best case', you can halt the progress of science by law-abiding and well-intentioned people. This is worse than the alternative.
Yes, new technologies do pose threats to our way of life. Usually, these disruptions are for the good. In the case where they are for ill, then it behooves us to understand them, rather than to intentionally blind ourselves to them.
Imagine a scenario where terrorists could alter a disease or organic biological weapon gene by gene to make it immune to current antidotes. Imagine further a victim nation whose biologists shrug their collective shoulders and say, "We know nothing about plague engineering. Try next door, it's legal there."
Modern Egypt:
1>Get someone to give you a medium stone (they are cheap, often free)
2>Get some leather from a UWorship, or buy some (not cheap, but by no means expensive)
3>Walk 10 minutes in any direction and you'll trip over a public rock saw. Use it to make flystones.
4>A little oil, a few bricks, and bam. Pottery wheel.
Ancient Egypt:
1>Find a medium stone lying on the ground somewhere (long project, as most stones come from under the ground)
2>Gather flint. You need 70. You have a 5% chance of getting one piece of flint each time you gather clay. You must run to a water source each time you gather clay, as you only have one jug of water to soften the ground with. Use the flint to build a rock saw.
3>Get leather, which may or may not include inventing sheep ranching.
4>A little oil, a few bricks, &c.
Catching up is a lot simpler than many folk realize. All you need to do is make some friends. Most things are relatively deflationary, especially at a newbies tech level. Alternatively, you could join a guild and be instantly caught up.
In that case, they come out even better. They get 20% of both Jack and shit.
Unfortunately, these are not spammers who are being forced to pack up and go home, but the operators of black-hole lists.
This is, unfortunately a victory for the junkmailers. I find it depressing that they were able to get away with such criminal behavior.
You indicated during an interview for Neverwhere, that Croup and Vandermar had appeared in a work which you had begun some years earlier, but never finished. In your graphic work, the Corinthian seems to play a similar role to these two happy sociopaths for hire.
Back on topic, there needs to be more cleanly accesible Font server information available. For example, I'm not completely sure my own system has less than two running. :(
The Cynic Project
Taucher
Schiller
Sunbeam
There are a bunch more, even among my favorites, but that's a place to start.
If you have a problem with the moderation system, please consider that moderators are not the only ones who read at -1. In fact, if you believe the moderation system serves to quash dissenting viewpoints, then why make it painful for people to bypass modrration entirely by browsing at -1?
If you're just trying to be puerile, so be it. But if you have a point, please share.
The problem with this is that you get burglar alarm circuits. They are they same as voice, but have different rules. If the ILEC finds out you're using them for DSL, they'll just load them, which is perfectly legal (after all, it enhaces the range for voice), but will squash your project flatter than a pancake.
Just a minor point. She's at least 21, and works for Linuxcare. The BSDi like her anyway, though.
I know I'm feeding but Linus Torvalds is actually Finnish.
Nope, lode is the correct spelling in this case, typically indicating a vein of some mineral found underground.
1.Video Games are "expressive works". This makes them copyrightable. IMHO, this also make them "speech" as in "Beer". Here is where the Judge lays hand on ye olde rainbow-colored crackpipe.
2.This law places limits on an expressive work, in a non content-agnostic way. If the work in question is "speech", then such limits are in violation of the First Amendment, and therefore illegal, absent a compelling interest.
3.Depictions of explicit sexual behavior or violence do not, in themselves, qualify as "obscenity", nor as "fighting words".
R.If this class of expressive work is "speech", then the law is bunk.
However, now that a 'proof of concept' attack has been performed, it will be interesting to see what engineering tricks can be used to keep a tower standing when a barely sub-nuclear blaze is allowed to burn inside it for an hour or two.
The primary impetus for this coming round of upgrades is a new application, the one which requires the X Server to run. The idea behind it is to add a layer of abstraction between the users, and the legacy app from hell, the one which requires a UTS60 emulator, with an eye toward banishing the foul thing. Of course, Exceed is a real pig, as always. Everybody has the office suite, but most only use it to read .ppts and .docs on the Intranet. The rest use it to POST .ppts and .docs to the Intranet.
1. As other posters have mentioned, broadband's killer apps are gaming, and to a lesser extent, serving(P2P mainly). These depend on upstream latency and banswidth respecively. 56k just doesn't cut it.
2. They did the roll out in Cincinnati. Cincinnati has 3 regional cable providers, all of whom provide Internet access(even if one of them is Insight@Home), a constant churn of CLEC DSL providers, and one of the few ILECs in the country to not have its head lodged in the usual place (Not that Broadwing/Cincinnati Bell doesn't have issues, this just isn't one of them.)
3. They did the roll out in Cincinnati? I live in the Metro area. I watch WKRC-TV. This is the first I've heard of this. This is par for the course for Clear Channel.
Quantum effects happen over distances that are significantly smaller than the 'diameter' of an electron, a couple orders of magnitude smaller than an atom, much less a 60+ molecule buckytube.
Simple, it was reverse temporal engineering.
While I believe the most egregious pieces of the current trade alphabet soup need to be elminated, I think a longer-term solution would be the restructuring of copyright duration.
Rather than making copyrights last for some large X number of years, or the life of the author + X years, why not make a copyright short term, but infinately renewable, at an exponentially increasing cost? This will allow corps to protect their most valuable content, while forcing them to relinquish claims on anything that does not sell enough to cover the cost of renewing its copyright.
I do not claim to know what durations and costs would be required to make it work, here balancing the needs of the small publisher for protection, with the need for a large corps content to expire sometime, but I think it's an idea that's worth a thought.
Perfect knowledge and the ability to avoid unintended consequences, what is the one thing you would add to or remove from Slashdot? Would you edit the mod systems, make everyone ACs, or perhaps send all the trolls here?