I'm sure I'm not the only South African who read the first part of the headline and wondered briefly why/. was commenting on the the SA vs Samoa match in the rugby world cup tomorrow...
Assuming Belgium radio royalties for broadcast music works on a similar basis to elsewhere (and I believe it does) then the radio station has already paid a royalty for broadcast. Claiming a second royalty seems extremely dubious.
Its quite common on these types of competitions, and I suspect is has more to do with the cose of shiping the prizes...
At least they didn't call it 'World SysAdmin...'. A number of years ago Macromedia had a 'World Flash Animation comtetition' with similar rules (though if I recall their vision of the world did include Germany)
as a developer working on Sakai at onother school I can tell you that the Sakai Foundation is taking this very seriously and examining the possible effects. There has been a lot of traffic on the lists and people have been contributing to the wikipedia list of prior art. As you can imagine many people involved in Sakai worked on that 'prior art' and are particularly offended by the patent.
In our case we're outside the US in a teritory where this sort of thing is not patentable so we're saffer than most.
Ok I did mail federation@google on day 1. I work in the acedemic computing department at a University, we are exploring Jabber/XMPP as a way of supporting teaching and research colaboration - so federating with google would be useful for us. I got an automated message witth a reference numkber of over 35 million and am still awaiting a responce....
try this (If the link doesn't work the article is - "Bizarre fantasy of the 'Karoo Klux Klan'" 8 Nov 2002) From the article: While the danger is not yet over the plot appears to have been foiled. On Monday the police caught one of the alleged ringleaders, a former army officer called Tom Vorster, who had been on the run for six months and is believed by police to have been in contact in recent years with white supremacist groups in the United States. (my emphasis)
Another article in the print media I can seem to find online, explored the links in greater detail. As I recall they traced links to the KKK and ohter whiter supremacists groups. They also indicated that mambers had met with Newt Gingrich and other GOB figures. Its unlikely however that they suported the Boeremag (lit. famer's force) - though they would have some issues (like oposition to afermitive action in common). Then again people are being held under the patriot act on far more tenuace links...
There are other interesting paralels out here too (I'm in.za)
1) We had a law ubder the apartheid government oficialy called "Supression of Comunism Act" Basicaly it defined all 'comunist' organisations as terorist aroganisations and made memebership of them ilegal. The executive got to decide what a comunist organisation was (basicaly any vaguely left leaning party). As many of our current government were imprisoned under this act were safe from (at leat some) of the patriot act execces (for now)
2) Last year a group of white right wing extrememists went on a bombing campaign (8 in one day - mostly train stations in black areas but also a Budist Temple) Damage was fairly minimal and they were quickly caught. However it emerged that they had ties to US right wing groupings, unseprisingly some like the KKK, but also to senior republicans. Now could we ask the US to extradite them (with no evidence) and if they refused acuse Washington of habouring International terrrists?
Interesting claim, rememebr these TLDS are ment to international. Does this mean that if my father applied for a.pro they would check his standing with the South African Law Society? Would they do this for all applicants from all countries?
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Ok to start INAL but some points in support.
Whether someone agrees to sell you something at the price they advertised or not is not illegal (at least under the law here and in most places with legal systems based on Britains). Not suplying goods payed for.
As my father (AL) explained it to me a price is an invitation to enter into a sales contract, while the sale itself is (implicitly or explicitly) a contract. While advertising at a price you won't supply might get you in trouble with your industry body/consumer rights body/advertising authority it is not ilegal. Reusing to suply goods paid for is a breach of the sales contract and would be subject to damages just as any other breach of contract.
Interesting venue to hold a Biologicaly minded event. Many Capetonians will not go to the Oudekraal hotel, when the hotel was developed about 3 years ago there were large protests against developing on that part of the mountain due to ecological sensetivity, the fact that it is one of the last stretches of the coastline that isn't developed and its proximity to a kramat (burial place of a muslim Holy man). They also demolished a historic homestead to build the thing...
There is something else to remember here a book (whether in print or electronic) has 2 copyrights on it. The first aplies to the text and (usualy) remains with the author. The other applies to the typseting, design and layout and belongs to the author. Therefore if you take a Penguin Classics copy of Plato's Republic, photocopy it and sell it you are in breach of penguin's copyright (not Plato's). You can however take the text reformat it ect and print it
Shutleworth is funding three research projects around his trips. One of the projects will involve University of Cape Town, Physiologists. The universities monday paper has the story
This worm hit my NT box - despite all of M$ security patches being installed. Some of the changes I have noticed.
Any requests to the webserver serving the machines primary domain name (but not it's aliases) will also send a file called "readme.exe" with the page - I haven't run the file but neither Norton or Fsecure recognise it a a virus. Also in the root of said webserver it places a file called readme.eml (an outlook email message) which is a mime message containing the file readme.exe
Well we recently passed similar legislation to Brazil's here in South Africa, ours alows the government to licence and import generic anti-retrovirals.
One of the interesting facts to emerge from the debates was that on average only 4% of a drugs price was in R&D, the rest was marketing, pakaging and other overheads. What has hapened here is that many of the manufacturers of anti-retroviral drugs have started matching the price of the cheaper generic drugs
If I recall the charge Dmitri faces, he was not arrested for presenting his paper at DEFCON but profiting from a circumvention devise. The claim the feds make is that because the company that handled the credit card payments is in the US he can be charged under US law.
Ok IANAL but Why have'nt the empoyees of the crdit card company been charged?
Actualy I doubt ICANN would aprove this domain (or rather in order to do so they would have to break their own guidelines)
In short the 2 letter domain has to appear in ISO 3166-1, which is in turn based on the UN Statistical servises lists. eu does not appear as a 'country or teritory' in either.
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I'm sure I'm not the only South African who read the first part of the headline and wondered briefly why /. was commenting on the the SA vs Samoa match in the rugby world cup tomorrow ...
It looks like the photos I imported to Facebook from KDE were restored round 16:00 GMT, Haven't tried uploading yet ...
Assuming Belgium radio royalties for broadcast music works on a similar basis to elsewhere (and I believe it does) then the radio station has already paid a royalty for broadcast. Claiming a second royalty seems extremely dubious.
Its quite common on these types of competitions, and I suspect is has more to do with the cose of shiping the prizes...
...'. A number of years ago Macromedia had a 'World Flash Animation comtetition' with similar rules (though if I recall their vision of the world did include Germany)
At least they didn't call it 'World SysAdmin
as a developer working on Sakai at onother school I can tell you that the Sakai Foundation is taking this very seriously and examining the possible effects. There has been a lot of traffic on the lists and people have been contributing to the wikipedia list of prior art. As you can imagine many people involved in Sakai worked on that 'prior art' and are particularly offended by the patent.
In our case we're outside the US in a teritory where this sort of thing is not patentable so we're saffer than most.
Ok I did mail federation@google on day 1. I work in the acedemic computing department at a University, we are exploring Jabber/XMPP as a way of supporting teaching and research colaboration - so federating with google would be useful for us. I got an automated message witth a reference numkber of over 35 million and am still awaiting a responce....
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try this (If the link doesn't work the article is - "Bizarre fantasy of the 'Karoo Klux Klan'" 8 Nov 2002) From the article:
While the danger is not yet over the plot appears to have been foiled. On Monday the police caught one of the alleged ringleaders, a former army officer called Tom Vorster, who had been on the run for six months and is believed by police to have been in contact in recent years with white supremacist groups in the United States. (my emphasis)
Another article in the print media I can seem to find online, explored the links in greater detail. As I recall they traced links to the KKK and ohter whiter supremacists groups. They also indicated that mambers had met with Newt Gingrich and other GOB figures. Its unlikely however that they suported the Boeremag (lit. famer's force) - though they would have some issues (like oposition to afermitive action in common). Then again people are being held under the patriot act on far more tenuace links...
There are other interesting paralels out here too (I'm in .za)
1) We had a law ubder the apartheid government oficialy called "Supression of Comunism Act" Basicaly it defined all 'comunist' organisations as terorist aroganisations and made memebership of them ilegal. The executive got to decide what a comunist organisation was (basicaly any vaguely left leaning party). As many of our current government were imprisoned under this act were safe from (at leat some) of the patriot act execces (for now)
2) Last year a group of white right wing extrememists went on a bombing campaign (8 in one day - mostly train stations in black areas but also a Budist Temple) Damage was fairly minimal and they were quickly caught. However it emerged that they had ties to US right wing groupings, unseprisingly some like the KKK, but also to senior republicans. Now could we ask the US to extradite them (with no evidence) and if they refused acuse Washington of habouring International terrrists?
Interesting claim, rememebr these TLDS are ment to international. Does this mean that if my father applied for a .pro they would check his standing with the South African Law Society? Would they do this for all applicants from all countries?
Ok to start INAL but some points in support.
Whether someone agrees to sell you something at the price they advertised or not is not illegal (at least under the law here and in most places with legal systems based on Britains). Not suplying goods payed for.
As my father (AL) explained it to me a price is an invitation to enter into a sales contract, while the sale itself is (implicitly or explicitly) a contract. While advertising at a price you won't supply might get you in trouble with your industry body/consumer rights body/advertising authority it is not ilegal. Reusing to suply goods paid for is a breach of the sales contract and would be subject to damages just as any other breach of contract.
Interesting venue to hold a Biologicaly minded event. Many Capetonians will not go to the Oudekraal hotel, when the hotel was developed about 3 years ago there were large protests against developing on that part of the mountain due to ecological sensetivity, the fact that it is one of the last stretches of the coastline that isn't developed and its proximity to a kramat (burial place of a muslim Holy man). They also demolished a historic homestead to build the thing...
There is something else to remember here a book (whether in print or electronic) has 2 copyrights on it. The first aplies to the text and (usualy) remains with the author. The other applies to the typseting, design and layout and belongs to the author. Therefore if you take a Penguin Classics copy of Plato's Republic, photocopy it and sell it you are in breach of penguin's copyright (not Plato's). You can however take the text reformat it ect and print it
Shutleworth is funding three research projects around his trips. One of the projects will involve University of Cape Town, Physiologists. The universities monday paper has the story
This worm hit my NT box - despite all of M$ security patches being installed. Some of the changes I have noticed.
Any requests to the webserver serving the machines primary domain name (but not it's aliases) will also send a file called "readme.exe" with the page - I haven't run the file but neither Norton or Fsecure recognise it a a virus. Also in the root of said webserver it places a file called readme.eml (an outlook email message) which is a mime message containing the file readme.exe
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Well we recently passed similar legislation to Brazil's here in South Africa, ours alows the government to licence and import generic anti-retrovirals.
One of the interesting facts to emerge from the debates was that on average only 4% of a drugs price was in R&D, the rest was marketing, pakaging and other overheads. What has hapened here is that many of the manufacturers of anti-retroviral drugs have started matching the price of the cheaper generic drugs
If I recall the charge Dmitri faces, he was not arrested for presenting his paper at DEFCON but profiting from a circumvention devise. The claim the feds make is that because the company that handled the credit card payments is in the US he can be charged under US law.
Ok IANAL but Why have'nt the empoyees of the crdit card company been charged?
In short the 2 letter domain has to appear in ISO 3166-1, which is in turn based on the UN Statistical servises lists. eu does not appear as a 'country or teritory' in either.
Have a look at their report on asigning the .pl TLD to Palestine