But this is getting diluted in the digital age, some courts have declared fully synthetic child porn illegal; the argument being that they didn't want to leave a loop hole to make real child porn and use it as a template for the synthetic one.
Hmm, everything seems to be hanging at the "commercial" intention. If we'd be having this discussion without the fee aspect, everyone would be harking at Real for trying to hide a bug instead of fixing it, and trying to prevent the noble security researcher from protecting us all from the big bad company and its bad proprietary code.
With other words, we're dealing with the thought crime of making money of proprietary software instead of making it FOSS.
Don't know if you misspoke there, but in most of Europe claiming that 6 million Jews did NOT die in the Holocaust puts you in jail. Holocaust denial is a felony in Germany and Austria, and illegal in most of the rest of the EU.
Many atheists give you an argument on that. Belief makes it sound like it's a choice between different viable possibilities. They have the knowledge that there is no god, and anyone who "beliefs" is automatically making an irrational choice.
I was thinking the same; yes, I still would like to cut the company president and half the PhDs off the internet half the time, but nevertheless I sleep better with with automatic patches, AV and long passwords.
Sure it's not defense against a dedicated hacker or the NSA, but it beats relying on people actually listening to you in the security briefings, especially the "I don't have time for this" and the "I know better" crowds.
it got really bad when they introduced the "feedback mutually withdrawn feature". I nearly fell for a guy with 99+% positive, until I started to dig through the list and noticed the huge amount of "withdrawn". If you recalculated his approval rating with those, he was below 95%, and that guy was a professional "power" jewelry seller.
My beef is not with the market performance but the physical performance compared to XP. And even quoting Bott's highly controversial claims doesn't make the DRM FUD; it's there, and it does use cycles, and would be detrimental for a server kernel if it is using system resources uselessly.
As bad as Vista has been doing, this better be a huge upgrade, or 2008 server is setting itself up as a huge flop from the get go. Unless of course they assume that servers are run by professionals who don't need the "allow or deny" pop-ups, and don't watch HD videos with special DRM.
This has been the problems for at least a century and a half. Not only are all implementations of the idea covered, even things you never imagined being important in the patent are protected. Read up on the Rolling-White patent for a gun from the 1850's. The gun was crap, but the patent had a drawing showing a completely drilled through chamber for a cartridge (as compared to the closed chambers of percussion cap revolvers at the time). This part of the patent allowed Smith&Wesson to corner the early market for revolvers for a decade.
This despite the fact that patent was shown to be invalid by prior art (the French inventor Lefaucheux had gotten a European patent on this a year earlier) the courts couldn't get themselves to overturn it.
A patent examiner has typically 8 h of time to examine an application. So the applicant is supposed to help with the process by listing all applicable prior art and related patents - what is the basis of trying get patents overturned for having missed something relevant. But the patent examiner has to take a lot of what is presented to him as factual, or he'd never get anywhere. And so you get patents issued that should have never been granted in an ideal process, where the examiner is an expert in the field, and where the prior art is obvious (and not hidden in some 80's area source code).
If Microsoft is clever they come up with a working odf output, and tell the world "see, we cooperate". Then they challenge OO to do the same with.doc, and we all know how well that works. How long till people see the folly of relying on anything with open in the name and go back to MS "cause it works".
There might be thousands of open source supporters spending time on improving OO, but there are thousands of paid MS employees too, working 40 h a week with the full of a big organization. I think OO was lucky so far that MS thought political fights are more important than technical competition.
you're confusing two different concepts, as I understand he argues the LAN as we know it, aka machines talking to some form of gateway or internal server will go away in favor of an "all internet" connectivity. What is not the same as replacing wired LAN with a wireless architecture that still maintains a local net.
You need an awful lot of self confidence to run through life telling a creature that can create universes it doesn't exist.
Or, as Terry Prachert wrote it, "he wasn't an atheist per se, because atheism was a non-survival trait in a world with 7000 gods"
surprisingly, asbestos still has a lot of industrial uses. Contrary to popular belief, it is not outlawed, just the use as asbestos paper and asbestos spray insulation is illegal due to the high fraction of volatile fibers.
Not to mention that the great majority of "damage" is done not to Canadian but to US businesses, who most likely won't see a penny of the Canadian tax collected.
The reason MS survives it flops and continues to dominate is simple - continuity. You can still read files written under Windows 3.1, browse the file system on a Win95 machine via the network, and map a drive on a WinMe box. All straight out of the box, without a single command line.
And since the guys having to make the decision to wholesale dump MS and switch to FOSS still have their grandkids baby pics on a FAT formated floppy, they will continue to buy MS. Because if they ask IT about the track record of a given FOSS program, most IT guys will be hard press to sign under the "this will still be supported in 10 years" line.
I don't know if you've ever played in the end game of a MMORPG - but skill is everything. Your fellow players at the highest level know immediately if you're a phony on a bought or borrowed account. Even if you have the skill with one of your classes, most likely we will know when you're on another toon, simply because it's not up to the standards. It's the fraction of a second your spells are late, the way you miss on hits by bad positioning, the choice of buffs you dole out.
You can buy all the gold you want (or all the characters) from the commercial players, but you won't get anywhere at the end. At a level where 50 people have to give 99% of their ability to beat an encounter your lack of skill, even in a grind based game, will stick out like a sore thumb.
It also has to survive the next election cycle. This whole thing sounds to me like "ok, we know it's dead, but at least we'll bury a complete corpse". The Bush DHS just doesn't want the headline to be "REALID, mandated by congress in 2001, dies in DHS bureaucracy".
CO2, the allotrope of carbon...
I personally would still look through the ashes so - my first guess would be the diamond fell out of the prongs when the metal started to expand.
The activation energy for the conversion of diamond to graphite is so high, it is KINETICALLY stable at room temperature. Just because the valley is lower on the other side, water does not flow up Mount Everest.
I'm sure you don't have any school-age kids, otherwise you wouldn't spout that nonsense. You have to provide full immunization records to get your kids enrolled, and they keep adding new ones every year. They eliminated religious exemptions, and are using the courts to enforce it with contempt citations. And that all mostly on your local level. Adding an "anti-addiction" vaccine to the required cycle takes one school board meeting. You should really check the power school boards have next time you toss that flyer for the off-year election.
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Skynets first act will be the total elimination of our government by crashing air planes into major buildings.
But this is getting diluted in the digital age, some courts have declared fully synthetic child porn illegal; the argument being that they didn't want to leave a loop hole to make real child porn and use it as a template for the synthetic one.
Hmm, everything seems to be hanging at the "commercial" intention. If we'd be having this discussion without the fee aspect, everyone would be harking at Real for trying to hide a bug instead of fixing it, and trying to prevent the noble security researcher from protecting us all from the big bad company and its bad proprietary code. With other words, we're dealing with the thought crime of making money of proprietary software instead of making it FOSS.
Don't know if you misspoke there, but in most of Europe claiming that 6 million Jews did NOT die in the Holocaust puts you in jail. Holocaust denial is a felony in Germany and Austria, and illegal in most of the rest of the EU.
Many atheists give you an argument on that. Belief makes it sound like it's a choice between different viable possibilities. They have the knowledge that there is no god, and anyone who "beliefs" is automatically making an irrational choice.
I was thinking the same; yes, I still would like to cut the company president and half the PhDs off the internet half the time, but nevertheless I sleep better with with automatic patches, AV and long passwords. Sure it's not defense against a dedicated hacker or the NSA, but it beats relying on people actually listening to you in the security briefings, especially the "I don't have time for this" and the "I know better" crowds.
it got really bad when they introduced the "feedback mutually withdrawn feature". I nearly fell for a guy with 99+% positive, until I started to dig through the list and noticed the huge amount of "withdrawn". If you recalculated his approval rating with those, he was below 95%, and that guy was a professional "power" jewelry seller.
My beef is not with the market performance but the physical performance compared to XP. And even quoting Bott's highly controversial claims doesn't make the DRM FUD; it's there, and it does use cycles, and would be detrimental for a server kernel if it is using system resources uselessly.
As bad as Vista has been doing, this better be a huge upgrade, or 2008 server is setting itself up as a huge flop from the get go. Unless of course they assume that servers are run by professionals who don't need the "allow or deny" pop-ups, and don't watch HD videos with special DRM.
This has been the problems for at least a century and a half. Not only are all implementations of the idea covered, even things you never imagined being important in the patent are protected. Read up on the Rolling-White patent for a gun from the 1850's. The gun was crap, but the patent had a drawing showing a completely drilled through chamber for a cartridge (as compared to the closed chambers of percussion cap revolvers at the time). This part of the patent allowed Smith&Wesson to corner the early market for revolvers for a decade. This despite the fact that patent was shown to be invalid by prior art (the French inventor Lefaucheux had gotten a European patent on this a year earlier) the courts couldn't get themselves to overturn it.
A patent examiner has typically 8 h of time to examine an application. So the applicant is supposed to help with the process by listing all applicable prior art and related patents - what is the basis of trying get patents overturned for having missed something relevant. But the patent examiner has to take a lot of what is presented to him as factual, or he'd never get anywhere. And so you get patents issued that should have never been granted in an ideal process, where the examiner is an expert in the field, and where the prior art is obvious (and not hidden in some 80's area source code).
If Microsoft is clever they come up with a working odf output, and tell the world "see, we cooperate". Then they challenge OO to do the same with .doc, and we all know how well that works. How long till people see the folly of relying on anything with open in the name and go back to MS "cause it works".
There might be thousands of open source supporters spending time on improving OO, but there are thousands of paid MS employees too, working 40 h a week with the full of a big organization. I think OO was lucky so far that MS thought political fights are more important than technical competition.
you're confusing two different concepts, as I understand he argues the LAN as we know it, aka machines talking to some form of gateway or internal server will go away in favor of an "all internet" connectivity. What is not the same as replacing wired LAN with a wireless architecture that still maintains a local net.
You need an awful lot of self confidence to run through life telling a creature that can create universes it doesn't exist. Or, as Terry Prachert wrote it, "he wasn't an atheist per se, because atheism was a non-survival trait in a world with 7000 gods"
I never get to see the damage. All I do is reinstall and take away their administrator privileges.
surprisingly, asbestos still has a lot of industrial uses. Contrary to popular belief, it is not outlawed, just the use as asbestos paper and asbestos spray insulation is illegal due to the high fraction of volatile fibers.
Not to mention that the great majority of "damage" is done not to Canadian but to US businesses, who most likely won't see a penny of the Canadian tax collected.
The reason MS survives it flops and continues to dominate is simple - continuity. You can still read files written under Windows 3.1, browse the file system on a Win95 machine via the network, and map a drive on a WinMe box. All straight out of the box, without a single command line. And since the guys having to make the decision to wholesale dump MS and switch to FOSS still have their grandkids baby pics on a FAT formated floppy, they will continue to buy MS. Because if they ask IT about the track record of a given FOSS program, most IT guys will be hard press to sign under the "this will still be supported in 10 years" line.
I don't know if you've ever played in the end game of a MMORPG - but skill is everything. Your fellow players at the highest level know immediately if you're a phony on a bought or borrowed account. Even if you have the skill with one of your classes, most likely we will know when you're on another toon, simply because it's not up to the standards. It's the fraction of a second your spells are late, the way you miss on hits by bad positioning, the choice of buffs you dole out. You can buy all the gold you want (or all the characters) from the commercial players, but you won't get anywhere at the end. At a level where 50 people have to give 99% of their ability to beat an encounter your lack of skill, even in a grind based game, will stick out like a sore thumb.
if we dig a big trench across, will it sink?
It also has to survive the next election cycle. This whole thing sounds to me like "ok, we know it's dead, but at least we'll bury a complete corpse". The Bush DHS just doesn't want the headline to be "REALID, mandated by congress in 2001, dies in DHS bureaucracy".
CO2, the allotrope of carbon ...
I personally would still look through the ashes so - my first guess would be the diamond fell out of the prongs when the metal started to expand.
The activation energy for the conversion of diamond to graphite is so high, it is KINETICALLY stable at room temperature. Just because the valley is lower on the other side, water does not flow up Mount Everest.
yes, Quartz glass is about all he can hope for this way. Also occurring naturally as fulgurite.
I'm sure you don't have any school-age kids, otherwise you wouldn't spout that nonsense. You have to provide full immunization records to get your kids enrolled, and they keep adding new ones every year. They eliminated religious exemptions, and are using the courts to enforce it with contempt citations. And that all mostly on your local level. Adding an "anti-addiction" vaccine to the required cycle takes one school board meeting. You should really check the power school boards have next time you toss that flyer for the off-year election.