It's exactly the same bullshit the Christians tried so many years ago. The Christians however (at least most) gave that shit up and apologized.
The difference is, I believe, that Christianity is not a unified religion -- Protestants differ from Catholics, and even from other Protestants, considerably more than Shi'ites differ from Sunnis. Thus the Christian impulse to kill over religion was turned on other Christians, and all hell broke loose in Europe. --
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That nuke in Greenland was lost in 1968, 33 years ago. The yield of a hydrogen bomb is mainly determined by the hydrogen -- the fissile material contributes only a small percentage. The half-life of tritium is about 11 years.
So three half-lives have passed since the bomb was lost, and only one-eighth of the original tritium remains. That nuke has only one-eighth its original yield, assuming it's even in one piece.
Alas, neither article gives the yield of the bomb.
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But here is the point: these are projects, that for most part (a) opened after completetion, or (b) didnt use the OSS development model. For example, X-Windows was released in reference form, but it was developed as a community project initially. Same witg PGP, Kerberos, Perl, Python (maybe, not sure on that one), Mosix.
ESR notes in CatB that most open-source projects begin in the "cathedral" model; you develop something marginally useful and then open it up to attract some assistance. --
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You may remember this article about Wind River buying Walnut Creek CD-ROM and deciding it didn't want Slackware. Some thought that the future of Slackware was uncertain.
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"OK, we reeeeealy mean it this time, just give us another C-note and your BSODs will be gone forever." Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
ITYM $100 for XP, about $200 for a new disk so I can have enough space for it, and about $100 for another 128M of RAM.
I already have stability in the guise of a very stable Slackware setup, thank you very much.
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And on Oct. 25 comes the big kahuna: Windows XP, a potent new version of its desktop operating system that Chairman William H. Gates III says is Microsoft's most important product since Windows 95.
OK, Win95 was a big step up from Win 3.1, if only because Win 3.1 was a messy, jerry-built, unstable, bug-ridden pile of crap.
Now, how is XP such a big step-up from W2K, NT, or even W98? Is it the crippled MP3 support? The activation "feature"?
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the link itself reveals its bias, earthlinksucks. what does earthlink have to say about this?
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The peerless drive has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with Jaz (non)-technology. It is nothing at all like the Jaz, and suffers from NONE of the limitations of the Jaz. It's faster, it's FAR more reliable, and best of all it's SEALED MEDIA.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
I want to know what other company, in the same position as iomega, would have done anything differently in light of their own click of death? I seriously doubt ANY of them would admit to anything.
"So's your old man" is not an excuse. The fact remains that Iomega produced defective products and then reneged on its obligations under federal and state law to make its customers whole. Any company that does this deserves to get smacked, both in court and in the market, and it is not an excuse that other companies might do the same. --
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He's trashed Basic, APL, Cobol, Pascal...granted, at least the first three had it coming big time. Shoot, is there even one programming language that meets with Mr. Dijkstra's approval? --
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Hillary Rosen and her mom must have never had The Talk. After all, it's information she could use to be a whore. --
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Does anyone believe that an active con artist would tell the whole world how he cons people?
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What I couldn't find on his website or in the story is which party he represents. As a foreigner I have no clue although I would guess not Republican?
Boucher is a Democrat, as are most not-Republicans. Of course, for the most part Democratic corporate whores differ from Republican corporate whores only in that they close the door before spreading their legs.
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I'm a somewhat regular reader of rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan. Every now and then, some newbie shows up, asking "Can someone scan [book] and post it to the web?" or "Is [book] available on line?"
Such people are curtly told to go fuck themselves.
Book publishers, it seems, are perceived as having respect for the authors. Music publishers, OTOH, are perceived as trying to take advantage of the musicians and songwriters. Thus book copyrights get respect, but copying MP3s is perceived as stealing from thieves.
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While we're criticizing errors in the use of the English language, let me note that there is no E in "grammar." --
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This bill was prompted by SPAM to the author's, Garcia, AOL account popping up porn before being caught by the AOL parental controls.
First, AOHell is a major target for spammers. In the past, at least, they've published easily accessible directories of their email addresses.
Second, those of us who use Internet standard email clients, as opposed to the proprietary bloatware that AOHell provides, don't seem to have this problem.
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First, the above isn't "Interesting"; it's "Flamebait."
Second, one does not need to go to pr0n sites, sign up for stupid crap, or use AOHell to get spam. Posting to Usenet with an unmunged address is enough.
Third, I pay for my email address. I have the right to keep my address useful to ME, and not to every two-bit hustler with a LOSE.MONEY.FAST scheme. A mailbox that's 99% spam is no more useful than a/. discussion that's 99% idjits blithering about petrified actresses. --
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How much do you want to bet this post never gets moderated above a 1 or gets marked as flame bait?
If you must be a karma whore, at least try not to be so obvious about it.
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Our court system is perfectly sane -- as long as it's large corporations suing other large corporations.
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When will americans learn that the world does not end at New York?
I suppose you meant this as a joke, but is it really fair to dump on Americans for being monolingual? One cannot truly learn a language in isolation from native speakers, and there are few to be found here. And this is a damn big country. Go a couple hundred miles south from London, and you're in France. Go a couple hundred miles south from Washington, and you're in Virginia.
I have studied Spanish; I could leer el jodido artículo with about as much difficulty as thick legalese; but I speak Spanish just well enough to get my nose busted if I ever tried to use it in Mexico. --
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Of course, if you don't put the copyright notice, you're basically saying "I don't mind if you copy this, even though I have a copyright."
Uh...no. If it's copyrighted, you can't copy it without the owner's permission, except for fair use as defined in the law. The value of the notice is that it prevents the partial defense of innocent infringement, i.e. "Your Honor, I thought it was OK to do this." Statutory damages and attorneys' fees cannot be recovered if the defendant successfully claims innocent infringement.
17 USC 401 paragraph (d): "...If a notice of copyright...appears on the published copy or copies to which a defendant...had access, then no weight shall be given to such a defendant's interposition of a defense based on innocent infringement...except as provided in the last sentence of section 504(c)(2)."
Just be aware that, if you don't defend your copyright and enough people copy your work, you can loose your copyright.
Nothing in statute provides for loss of an undefended copyright. If there's a court ruling to that effect, I'd like to know what it is. This principle does apply to trademarks and trade secrets.
IANAL either, and probably most of you aren't; the best rule for all things related to copyrights and patents, if you aren't a lawyer and aren't willing to consult one, is to assume that (a) if you are the prospective owner, you should go through all the formalities; and (b) if you are not, everything not specifically permitted is forbidden. --
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The difference is, I believe, that Christianity is not a unified religion -- Protestants differ from Catholics, and even from other Protestants, considerably more than Shi'ites differ from Sunnis. Thus the Christian impulse to kill over religion was turned on other Christians, and all hell broke loose in Europe.
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So three half-lives have passed since the bomb was lost, and only one-eighth of the original tritium remains. That nuke has only one-eighth its original yield, assuming it's even in one piece.
Alas, neither article gives the yield of the bomb.
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ESR notes in CatB that most open-source projects begin in the "cathedral" model; you develop something marginally useful and then open it up to attract some assistance.
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*sigh* The above is not +1, Interesting. It's -1, Offtopic. Duh.
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The whole article fits on my screen.
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OK, Win95 was a big step up from Win 3.1, if only because Win 3.1 was a messy, jerry-built, unstable, bug-ridden pile of crap.
Now, how is XP such a big step-up from W2K, NT, or even W98? Is it the crippled MP3 support? The activation "feature"?
Just what is in XP that I should get it, if I'm already using W98 or some such?
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Probably a lawsuit or WTO proceeding over "domain squatting," since we poor little consumers might be confused by the name earthlinksucks and think it was actually Earthlink.
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"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
I want to know what other company, in the same position as iomega, would have done anything differently in light of their own click of death? I seriously doubt ANY of them would admit to anything.
"So's your old man" is not an excuse. The fact remains that Iomega produced defective products and then reneged on its obligations under federal and state law to make its customers whole. Any company that does this deserves to get smacked, both in court and in the market, and it is not an excuse that other companies might do the same.
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He's trashed Basic, APL, Cobol, Pascal...granted, at least the first three had it coming big time. Shoot, is there even one programming language that meets with Mr. Dijkstra's approval?
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Hillary Rosen and her mom must have never had The Talk. After all, it's information she could use to be a whore.
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I can understand Joe Sixpack having trouble with metric. But these people working for NASA are presumably educated. They ought to know better.
So to hell with conversion. Just use metric.
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Does anyone believe that an active con artist would tell the whole world how he cons people?
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Boucher is a Democrat, as are most not-Republicans. Of course, for the most part Democratic corporate whores differ from Republican corporate whores only in that they close the door before spreading their legs.
Nice to know at least somebody in Congress isn't a whore.
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Such people are curtly told to go fuck themselves.
Book publishers, it seems, are perceived as having respect for the authors. Music publishers, OTOH, are perceived as trying to take advantage of the musicians and songwriters. Thus book copyrights get respect, but copying MP3s is perceived as stealing from thieves.
Whether this perception is accurate is another matter.
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While we're criticizing errors in the use of the English language, let me note that there is no E in "grammar."
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First, AOHell is a major target for spammers. In the past, at least, they've published easily accessible directories of their email addresses.
Second, those of us who use Internet standard email clients, as opposed to the proprietary bloatware that AOHell provides, don't seem to have this problem.
Third, maybe they should try outlawing spam.
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17 years is the old law. New patents get 20 years from filing. Patents filed before 8 Jan 1995 get the longer of 17 years from issue or 20 years from filing.
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Second, one does not need to go to pr0n sites, sign up for stupid crap, or use AOHell to get spam. Posting to Usenet with an unmunged address is enough.
Third, I pay for my email address. I have the right to keep my address useful to ME, and not to every two-bit hustler with a LOSE.MONEY.FAST scheme. A mailbox that's 99% spam is no more useful than a /. discussion that's 99% idjits blithering about petrified actresses.
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If you must be a karma whore, at least try not to be so obvious about it.
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Our court system is perfectly sane -- as long as it's large corporations suing other large corporations.
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I suppose you meant this as a joke, but is it really fair to dump on Americans for being monolingual? One cannot truly learn a language in isolation from native speakers, and there are few to be found here. And this is a damn big country. Go a couple hundred miles south from London, and you're in France. Go a couple hundred miles south from Washington, and you're in Virginia.
I have studied Spanish; I could leer el jodido artículo with about as much difficulty as thick legalese; but I speak Spanish just well enough to get my nose busted if I ever tried to use it in Mexico.
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Uh...no. If it's copyrighted, you can't copy it without the owner's permission, except for fair use as defined in the law. The value of the notice is that it prevents the partial defense of innocent infringement, i.e. "Your Honor, I thought it was OK to do this." Statutory damages and attorneys' fees cannot be recovered if the defendant successfully claims innocent infringement.
17 USC 401 paragraph (d): "...If a notice of copyright...appears on the published copy or copies to which a defendant...had access, then no weight shall be given to such a defendant's interposition of a defense based on innocent infringement...except as provided in the last sentence of section 504(c)(2)."
Just be aware that, if you don't defend your copyright and enough people copy your work, you can loose your copyright.
Nothing in statute provides for loss of an undefended copyright. If there's a court ruling to that effect, I'd like to know what it is. This principle does apply to trademarks and trade secrets.
IANAL either, and probably most of you aren't; the best rule for all things related to copyrights and patents, if you aren't a lawyer and aren't willing to consult one, is to assume that (a) if you are the prospective owner, you should go through all the formalities; and (b) if you are not, everything not specifically permitted is forbidden.
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It's worth noting that the passage of UCITA has not exactly led to a flood of IT businesses coming to Maryland. Even the 800 Pound Gorilla still claims jurisdiction in the state of Washington.
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