You wrote some code while at your employer's facility. That code belongs to the employer. You may not distribute it or disclose it without your employer's permission. Period. This is true of anything you write, GPL or not. The GPL does not change ownership in any situation.
Perhaps your verbal permission was sufficient. That is a straight contract law issue.
If you distribute or even use the code you wrote, you need to comply with whatever license terms apply to code it depends on. Royalty payments, or in the case of GPLed code, redistribution rules. Your employer is free to take the code you wrote and use it as they see fit....but if they distribute it with a copy of a Windows DLL they have to follow Microsoft's rules and if they distribute it with some GPLed code then they have to follow those rules.
If you distributed that code without your employer's permission, your bad, I'm afraid.
Remember I said that the GPL does not change ownership in any situation? This whole issue you have is one reason the FSF asks for assignments of code they put into their packages. That way the whole of (say) GCC is owned by the FSF and they are certain they have the right to distribute it. But for example Linus has chosen to take the opposite tack with Linux: each change is owned by its contributor (in your case that would be your employer, not you). Either system can work because the GPL governs only distribution (despite the confusion of many posters to this discussion).
the Boy Scouts Association of America was unlikely to have armed marshalls
Maybe not the American scouts which have watered down things over the years, but surely any of the Commonwealth countries whose scouting remains faithful to Baden-Powell's original vision should be able to muster a brigade or two of 14-year-old armed marshalls....
Whoa - aren't you supposed *never* to put any kind of animal waste (meat, milk, etc) in your compost?
You are very much correct! But in reality table scraps etc end up indiscriminately in these things.
It's the same issue as with recycling: many people don't care at all (a big reason why there aren't a lot of public recycling bins in most cities -- they end up with trash mixed in), but even of those who want to recycle, following the sorting rules can be quite difficult.
The other major problem with these things is swarms of flies -- not something I really want in my basement! For example the bots (fly eggs) will also be in your food preparation trimmings, so travel into the compost without having been killed via cooking.
Another post talked about meat attracting maggots, but various fly larvae consume all sorts of rotting crud, not just meat.
Plus the smell can be pretty bad if your household is non-veg.
And why does it matter what language the script used was in...
Err, because the script you follow in a social engineering attack needs to be in a language the guy at the other end of the phone can actually understand?
Everything else I agree with, but if somebody does not have a license, they should not be entitled to drive.
The license is a test of worthyness, I don't care WHO they are
Great, so since you don't care who they are you don't need to have access to who they are.
A license already carries a biometric authenticator: a photo. Thus you can verify that the photo matches the person carrying it, and (via other mechanisms that don't require the name anyway) even verify that the license is valid. But there's no need for the name or address of the license bearer to be on the license.
I hate those "door nazis" too but you do realize that they're there because the company is suspicious of its employees right?
The scam they're looking for is you walking out with (say) an iPod and some headphones but the cashier only charging you for the headphones. Then you take the iPod to a fence and you and the cashier split the proceeds. That's why harass you for the most stupid and cursory check.
So yea, they suspect you of being a criminal, but their employees hate them so much (and vice versa I suppose) that what you're actually seeing is a manifestation of a festering pool of mutual hatred.
Really makes you want to go and shop there, right? For stuff they sell, stick to mail order.
Bullshit. There is exactly _no_ emphasis on victimhood.
Well, you can see it that way but I personally have a hard time interpreting highly successful books like Der Brand or Dresden 1944/45 as dispassionate depictions of the events they describe.
Different reactions to that war are interesting. In the US it's been described as a moral issue: "they were bad and we fixed it" (that attitude is still prevalent, hence the success of polemicists like Goldhagen). This approach avoids dealing with the complex moral questions that applied to the States (different from those that applied to Germany, but no less complex), nor the difficult question, quite relevant today, of "what would you have done?"
In Post-war West Germany it was important for people to distance themselves, especially because of the (understandably) vicious way the occupying troops identified all Germans as Nazis. In the 1960s children born late in the war or after the war became teenagers and young adults and questioned the older generations (as one can safely do when you're too young to have had to face the issues); some of the worst reactions to that was terrorism. Only now is there starting to be a more sensible attitude, like Schröder's.
But even now I still see the period referred to as "the Hitlerzeit" as if he had been some sort of alien who beamed down from another planet and terrorised everyone until he left.
Since East Germany more comprehensively denazified, and the regime attempted to tie nazism to capitalism, there was a particularly weird denial by anyone not purged.
I think in the next 20 years or so we'll start to see a more dispassionate treatment of the period, as even those who were children at the time die off, so fewer people feel a need for self-justification.
Is Godwin's law suspended for this discussion, BTW (given the topic)"?
And in the interest of open competition, this self-regulation group should publish the forbidden sites in an open RSS feed so that any search engine can use it! If there's a match, don't show the user!
You my laugh, but I have my wife's high school German History textbook from West Germany 1970s. It covers Germany from around the mid-18th century to about 1970. It's about 250 pages long...and has exactly two for the period 1933-1945.
Things are improving, but there's still a strong emphasis on victimhood....itself (I think) a reaction to the intense suppression of all discussion for so many years (and the youth rebellion, RAF etc that emerged in the 60s as kids who hadn't experienced the war tried to ask about it).
I built a house three years ago. I put conduit everywhere. By that I meant not just for the networking, but for every switch, fire alarm, thermostat, etc. It did add some cost and the electrician thought I was nuts (this was up to commercial, not residential code) but it was worth it.
The reason is that sometime in he future you will probably decide that your cabling is insufficient. Why? Who knows. As some people have mentioned, in 20 years you'll want to yank out the lame-o cat6 and replace it with super-duper multimode 2 gajillohertz waveguides to connect your file server to your realtime holographic TV. Who can say?
Actually I almost hit this limit just cabling the DVD player (in a wiring closet) to the flat panel. The cable that carried the signals was a bundle of coax tubes, plus of course I needed other signals in both directions. What a pain..
But you may also want to add some automation to your light switches, or scan the status of your fire detectors (or replace them with an anamorphic nannycam). _Then_ you'll discover the crappy low-voltage stuff installed by the electrician is up to code but insufficient for your purposes.
Don't worry about DC. It's a nice idea but 1> various devices have different requirements and 2> the electrical loss is huge over the distances being discussed.
Make sure you have sufficient space in your wiring closet. Not just to get to both sides of the patch panel(s) but that the conduits coming in are thick enough to get a whole hell of a lot of audio stuff -- TV etc.
Try to put a network outlet (just a box with a plate) on every wall; ideally in the vicinity of every AC outlet. Don't forget outdoors! Wireless is great for laptops and the like, but a waste of time for desktops, MP3 players, TVs etc. In fact we plug laptops in when doing major file transfers and backups anyway.
Doing your wiring is tedious, but you probably want to do it yourself. The people who wire houses are generally not that good at it (often electricians who want to make more money) and the people who do it professionally (commercial grade) generally won't to a house even if you are willing to pay real money.
Make sure you have a real wiring plan before you start. You'll have to ring everything out anyway, but figuring out after the fact which slot on the patch panel goes to that outlet you want to use on Saturday night two years from now is just no fun.
Can Mars Incorporated license me a Snicker's bar under the conditions that I won't share it with my friend?
Sounds funny, but soon you won't be able to legally freeze one because then you'd be infringing on their patent on the Snickers(R) Frow-zen(R) ice cream novelty bar.
And if you run a convenience store and happen to throw a couple of boxes into the freezer compartment for the convenience of your customers....hoo boy, it's the slammer for you!
LittleBigLui's comment is right on; I don't know why some of the moderators thought it a troll or offtopic. If you don't like how people use your data, don't put it online.
What's the difference between the submitter's complaint and the RIAA's complaint that you are trying to play a DVD out of region (or fast-forward through the ads, or...). Or a web designer complaining that you resized your browser window?
The web is all about links and the reader making the choices.
First the Mini-me. Then the iPod mini. Mac mini. Now a whole solar system mini? OK, the Hummer and Super Size Me showed something broken with society, but this kind of overreaction is worse than the disease!
If the data never reaches the disk, how can it reconstruct it?
That's not how a hologram works.
Conceptually think of data being written in successive, wide, spots, with the spot for each datum overlapping the ones around it. If some part is unreadable or unwritable (or merely unwritten because a mote got in the way) it's no big deal.
You can read more starting here and then by following the references.
Honda does a lot of "off the wall" projects that (like Asimo, racing engines) some of which turn into real businesses (their lawnmower engines led to motorbikes which lead to their auto business). Why aren't they in this business?
Other counterexamples have been scientific or business, so I should add that I have a terabyte RAID in the house that's almost full. I'm going to get another.
Where does it go?
I have ripped all my handycam video. That means it's easy to see when we want. When I want to edit one, I first make a copy of the original version. I make lots of copies part way through so I can undo or change my mind later. In the end, sure, that's not a lot of space, but all the intermediate products (which can hang around for a few weeks) add up to hundreds of gigabytes.
We back up all the laptops straight to it, and keep several backups around at any one time.
I have ripped all our and our parents' old slides, negatives, stray prints, and (in their case) super-8 films. That took up almost 1/2 GB right there.
Plus I don't have to spend much time deleting stuff. Mainly I do it on demand -- when it gets in the way of finding something I want. Otherwise it's just an investment I don't need to make.
The problem they never talk about (but which was mentioned by some other slashdot posters) is I have GB infrastructure (plus wireless for the laptops). Moving 80GB at a time can be a pain over 802.11!
Actually, the reason the CD is 70 minutes is so the entire 9th symphy of Beethoven would fit on a single disk (the president of Sony insisted on this). Before then you couldn't get the whole symphony on one LP disk which even then meant you could listen to about 1/4, then wait a few seconds while the next disk dropped, then hear the next 1/4, then go flip them over, repeat.
LP (Long Play -- we don't think of them lasting very long, but then again CDs don't seem very "compact" any more either) were about a maximum of 20 minutes on a side. Bands would order their songs on the albums so the best ones (or the ones they thought would get the most airplay) would be first on each side, and then after that _last_. This is why a song like Stairway to Heaven is in the middle of the CD: it was at the end of side 1, and after that you'd have blank.
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Put aside the GPL for a moment.
You wrote some code while at your employer's facility. That code belongs to the employer. You may not distribute it or disclose it without your employer's permission. Period. This is true of anything you write, GPL or not. The GPL does not change ownership in any situation.
Perhaps your verbal permission was sufficient. That is a straight contract law issue.
If you distribute or even use the code you wrote, you need to comply with whatever license terms apply to code it depends on. Royalty payments, or in the case of GPLed code, redistribution rules. Your employer is free to take the code you wrote and use it as they see fit....but if they distribute it with a copy of a Windows DLL they have to follow Microsoft's rules and if they distribute it with some GPLed code then they have to follow those rules.
If you distributed that code without your employer's permission, your bad, I'm afraid.
Remember I said that the GPL does not change ownership in any situation? This whole issue you have is one reason the FSF asks for assignments of code they put into their packages. That way the whole of (say) GCC is owned by the FSF and they are certain they have the right to distribute it. But for example Linus has chosen to take the opposite tack with Linux: each change is owned by its contributor (in your case that would be your employer, not you). Either system can work because the GPL governs only distribution (despite the confusion of many posters to this discussion).
...it'll be done in Bollywood, right?
That's it, the kid's banned from that Internet thingie...I want him to grow up and have a useful career like trial lawyer!
It's the same issue as with recycling: many people don't care at all (a big reason why there aren't a lot of public recycling bins in most cities -- they end up with trash mixed in), but even of those who want to recycle, following the sorting rules can be quite difficult.
The other major problem with these things is swarms of flies -- not something I really want in my basement! For example the bots (fly eggs) will also be in your food preparation trimmings, so travel into the compost without having been killed via cooking.
Another post talked about meat attracting maggots, but various fly larvae consume all sorts of rotting crud, not just meat.
Plus the smell can be pretty bad if your household is non-veg.
Should OSDL send every SCO shareholder a letter thanking them for their donation so that these shareholders could write it off?
Great, so since you don't care who they are you don't need to have access to who they are.
A license already carries a biometric authenticator: a photo. Thus you can verify that the photo matches the person carrying it, and (via other mechanisms that don't require the name anyway) even verify that the license is valid. But there's no need for the name or address of the license bearer to be on the license.
It's only there because of "mission creep."
I hate those "door nazis" too but you do realize that they're there because the company is suspicious of its employees right?
The scam they're looking for is you walking out with (say) an iPod and some headphones but the cashier only charging you for the headphones. Then you take the iPod to a fence and you and the cashier split the proceeds. That's why harass you for the most stupid and cursory check.
So yea, they suspect you of being a criminal, but their employees hate them so much (and vice versa I suppose) that what you're actually seeing is a manifestation of a festering pool of mutual hatred.
Really makes you want to go and shop there, right? For stuff they sell, stick to mail order.
Different reactions to that war are interesting. In the US it's been described as a moral issue: "they were bad and we fixed it" (that attitude is still prevalent, hence the success of polemicists like Goldhagen). This approach avoids dealing with the complex moral questions that applied to the States (different from those that applied to Germany, but no less complex), nor the difficult question, quite relevant today, of "what would you have done?"
In Post-war West Germany it was important for people to distance themselves, especially because of the (understandably) vicious way the occupying troops identified all Germans as Nazis. In the 1960s children born late in the war or after the war became teenagers and young adults and questioned the older generations (as one can safely do when you're too young to have had to face the issues); some of the worst reactions to that was terrorism. Only now is there starting to be a more sensible attitude, like Schröder's.
But even now I still see the period referred to as "the Hitlerzeit" as if he had been some sort of alien who beamed down from another planet and terrorised everyone until he left.
Since East Germany more comprehensively denazified, and the regime attempted to tie nazism to capitalism, there was a particularly weird denial by anyone not purged.
I think in the next 20 years or so we'll start to see a more dispassionate treatment of the period, as even those who were children at the time die off, so fewer people feel a need for self-justification.
Is Godwin's law suspended for this discussion, BTW (given the topic)"?
And in the interest of open competition, this self-regulation group should publish the forbidden sites in an open RSS feed so that any search engine can use it! If there's a match, don't show the user!
I for one would subscribe to that feed.
You my laugh, but I have my wife's high school German History textbook from West Germany 1970s. It covers Germany from around the mid-18th century to about 1970. It's about 250 pages long...and has exactly two for the period 1933-1945.
Things are improving, but there's still a strong emphasis on victimhood....itself (I think) a reaction to the intense suppression of all discussion for so many years (and the youth rebellion, RAF etc that emerged in the 60s as kids who hadn't experienced the war tried to ask about it).
I built a house three years ago. I put conduit everywhere. By that I meant not just for the networking, but for every switch, fire alarm, thermostat, etc. It did add some cost and the electrician thought I was nuts (this was up to commercial, not residential code) but it was worth it.
The reason is that sometime in he future you will probably decide that your cabling is insufficient. Why? Who knows. As some people have mentioned, in 20 years you'll want to yank out the lame-o cat6 and replace it with super-duper multimode 2 gajillohertz waveguides to connect your file server to your realtime holographic TV. Who can say?
Actually I almost hit this limit just cabling the DVD player (in a wiring closet) to the flat panel. The cable that carried the signals was a bundle of coax tubes, plus of course I needed other signals in both directions. What a pain..
But you may also want to add some automation to your light switches, or scan the status of your fire detectors (or replace them with an anamorphic nannycam). _Then_ you'll discover the crappy low-voltage stuff installed by the electrician is up to code but insufficient for your purposes.
Don't worry about DC. It's a nice idea but 1> various devices have different requirements and 2> the electrical loss is huge over the distances being discussed.
Make sure you have sufficient space in your wiring closet. Not just to get to both sides of the patch panel(s) but that the conduits coming in are thick enough to get a whole hell of a lot of audio stuff -- TV etc.
Try to put a network outlet (just a box with a plate) on every wall; ideally in the vicinity of every AC outlet. Don't forget outdoors! Wireless is great for laptops and the like, but a waste of time for desktops, MP3 players, TVs etc. In fact we plug laptops in when doing major file transfers and backups anyway.
Doing your wiring is tedious, but you probably want to do it yourself. The people who wire houses are generally not that good at it (often electricians who want to make more money) and the people who do it professionally (commercial grade) generally won't to a house even if you are willing to pay real money.
Make sure you have a real wiring plan before you start. You'll have to ring everything out anyway, but figuring out after the fact which slot on the patch panel goes to that outlet you want to use on Saturday night two years from now is just no fun.
HTH
Great. I really want Verisign deciding what is and is not an "obviously fake name". Aren't there already too many chokepoints under their control?
Free speech is free speech, even when jerks use it.
And if you run a convenience store and happen to throw a couple of boxes into the freezer compartment for the convenience of your customers....hoo boy, it's the slammer for you!
LittleBigLui's comment is right on; I don't know why some of the moderators thought it a troll or offtopic. If you don't like how people use your data, don't put it online.
What's the difference between the submitter's complaint and the RIAA's complaint that you are trying to play a DVD out of region (or fast-forward through the ads, or...). Or a web designer complaining that you resized your browser window?
The web is all about links and the reader making the choices.
First the Mini-me. Then the iPod mini. Mac mini. Now a whole solar system mini? OK, the Hummer and Super Size Me showed something broken with society, but this kind of overreaction is worse than the disease!
Plus you shouldn't forget the original 8080 Altair BASIC that led to the infamous "open letter to hobbyists."
That's not how a hologram works.
Conceptually think of data being written in successive, wide, spots, with the spot for each datum overlapping the ones around it. If some part is unreadable or unwritable (or merely unwritten because a mote got in the way) it's no big deal.
You can read more starting here and then by following the references.
Honda does a lot of "off the wall" projects that (like Asimo, racing engines) some of which turn into real businesses (their lawnmower engines led to motorbikes which lead to their auto business). Why aren't they in this business?
Other counterexamples have been scientific or business, so I should add that I have a terabyte RAID in the house that's almost full. I'm going to get another.
Where does it go?
Plus I don't have to spend much time deleting stuff. Mainly I do it on demand -- when it gets in the way of finding something I want. Otherwise it's just an investment I don't need to make.
The problem they never talk about (but which was mentioned by some other slashdot posters) is I have GB infrastructure (plus wireless for the laptops). Moving 80GB at a time can be a pain over 802.11!
Actually, the reason the CD is 70 minutes is so the entire 9th symphy of Beethoven would fit on a single disk (the president of Sony insisted on this). Before then you couldn't get the whole symphony on one LP disk which even then meant you could listen to about 1/4, then wait a few seconds while the next disk dropped, then hear the next 1/4, then go flip them over, repeat.
LP (Long Play -- we don't think of them lasting very long, but then again CDs don't seem very "compact" any more either) were about a maximum of 20 minutes on a side. Bands would order their songs on the albums so the best ones (or the ones they thought would get the most airplay) would be first on each side, and then after that _last_. This is why a song like Stairway to Heaven is in the middle of the CD: it was at the end of side 1, and after that you'd have blank.