HAD you done this on your OWN TIME using your OWN RESOURCES then this isn't part of the "temporary employment" you were in.
Sadly, you didn't. While you included open-source projects to be successful faster... the end result has a copyright owned by your employer. THEY CANNOT use this without properly administering the rights of the open-source projects they use. These are license-dependent... and I'm guessing by your email that some? or all? are GPL.
It's a thorny issue, but there is an EASY ANSWER and a HARD QUESTION.
EASY ANSWER: Your university can contribute YOUR contributions under the GPL and open-source it.
HARD QUESTION: Which licenses of the software you used have conditions which PREVENT that software from being used in a software program/package with a conflicting license, and which NON-conflicting license would your "temporary employers" be willing to live by so that they can continue to use it.
Otherwise, your "temporary employers" are in potential violation of the licenses of the software included in the package they are using.
First, my congratulations on your honor. Assuming you're a US citizen, and assuming you're NOT an elected government official nor employed by the government, enjoy said honor!
Ehud
http://topics.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei
"No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state."
There are many phones that are already Android-powered and make the apple toy irrelevant.
- wifi tethering - the Droid does - freedom to select an app steve jobs didn't approve with his pedophile priest - the Droid does - open-source - the Droid does
Israel isn't the exception. The US is. This is the only country to have certified the use of the apple toy.
We make a big deal of having people who come to OUR country respect OUR laws. That means a cellphone jammer that's legal in the UK cannot be brought nor used into this country. Laptops get confiscated and searched at the border, and people are interrogated about cash. We can discuss the libertarian aspects in the other 1700 threads... BUT
Israel is doing no differently than WE do. Their communication ministry (equivalent of our FCC) dictates what is ok and what isn't, and just as the apple toys are not certified for use in Europe they are not certified for use in Israel.
I'm sorry you don't like that your laptop can be confiscated. I'm sorry you think it would be worse if you're on a business trip. Don't bring drugs to Singapore, icrap to Israel, or laptops with kiddie porn to the US. You'll lose them and your liberty.
This "article" is worthless because it implies Israel is the exception. In fact it's we who are the exception.
Time to drop the false sense of outrage and enlightenment and respect other countries rights not to live by our (US) laws.
Yes, of course. 13 years old kids in 1974 got access to UI computer systems without paying for timeshare. Our hero, managed to take a whole room of "terminals" offline with one existing command.
And now [queue evil music] 36 years later, having done nothing of note ever, he now seeks his hard-earned fame.
First ever DoS... or 49 year old sociopath longing for publicity... or just a liar. You decide. I already have.
Yes, and they'll probably claim it's a HORRIBLE Denial-of-Service attack by those awful awful people who have no respect for law and order and don't care about the safety of OUR CHILDREN. MY GOD, THINK OF THE CHILDREN.
Or they'll blame it on Linux-users.
FORTUNATELY the Department of Homeland Security said they'll be monitoring Twitter until the olympics are over.
Maybe if Kevin Smith had less than 3.5oz liquids they can help him.
"We're from the government and we're here to help." -- SNL
There will be a 60" Vizio plasma, a XVGA 3-M projector TV with a 3M screen, 5.1 surround off the Onkyo, and plenty of food.
*** I WILL BE CHARGING *** But only to watch the game. The burgers, brats, dogs, and fixin's are all free.
Some details: The burgers will be Coleman natural. The brats will be Emerill. The dogs will be Hebrew National 100% beef.
THERE WILL BE BEER (Free, as in FREE BEER) and WINE and SCOTCH (single-malt only). Right now I'm thinking Heineken mini-kegs, but this could change if the weather allows large chest of microbrews.
Attendance to anyone 21 years of age or older is open with ticket. Tickets buy you the right to view The SuperBowl in my house.
E P.S. Authorized legal representatives of the NFL can contact my attorney. Martindale Hubbell 60189.
Good question. Regulatory powers in the non-US countries start from the Government, and then the PTTs and then carriers.
In the US the carriers are treated as regulated entities ONLY insofar as the tariff services [basically there is a core set of service that they say they will provide, and there is a tariff rate for it, but anything else isn't evaluated].
The second part of the problem is it takes 2-3 years for a consumer complaint [if not summarily dismissed] to get to the point where a regulatory agency [50 states and one Federal] would investigate... and often the "conclusion" they reach is an agreement to pay the government money to not get into more trouble.
The US leads the way in lots of things, but regulatory oversight of cellular telephone carriers is not one of those things.
The question is clear and other people's answers appear to have the same problem I do -- namely that it's unclear WHAT kind of service you want (good voice quality, good data quality, good SMS, pricing, etc.) and no criteria for "Best."
At this point I could stop having criticized the question, but instead let me offer you some answers, and you can pick and choose.
I have a Nokia N900 on a T-Mobile "all you can eat" plan. The plan is great. The phone is great. In my area T-Mobile can't hold a call.
I have a Motorola Droid on a Verizon "don't eat very much but enjoy your meal" plan. The plan is so so. The phone is almost great. Verizon coverage for voice and data is awesome here.
I have a Treo 700wx running Windows Mobile 5. I believe it's three years old. It was my Verizon phone prior to the Droid, and while it was annoying in requiring reboots and factory defaults, it was reliable. I did not love it very much tho, as I'm not a big fan of Windows Mobile. Here it works on SPRINT or Verizon, which are good.
If you go 1 hour north, there are totally different carrier coverages. However, on their respective maps they all appear to have equally good coverage here or there.
SO: When asking what is the best US Cell company, realize that 1. There are different companies throughout different parts, regions, and even cities in the same country. 2. Some companies (e.g. Cricket) resell limited services of some other companies (e.g. SPRINT or Qwest or Verizon within a limited geo. area where I am) 3. Some companies (e.g. Verizon) are an amalgamation of other companies, and their services vary greatly. (Verizon *in this area* formerly Cellular One formerly Bell Atlantic) 4. Data services and voice services are a function of many different things including how they provision service to the cell sites. Literally moving two miles away may get you 700Kbps on 3G data and good phone service, but the other way no data and decent phone service. 5. SMS is something I consider critical. Others do not.
So, in sum, to wind up this post, Voice Coverage, Data Coverage, SMS Coverage, and availability of phones are what can be used to judge the best US Cell company -- in my little neighborhood. Your conclusions 5 miles away will vary.
Yes, those are powers of 2. Yes, those conclusions are correct. Poppa Poster is correct. Original poster is a dolt. Editors that approved dolt are bigger dolts.
I was once an expert witness in a court case in Australian Federal District Court where AuDA stole the domain names of my client and tried to keep them.
AuDA is the epitome of an organization that is operating outside its moral guidelines.
AuDA should be removed and a responsible organization put in its place,
Sorry, Australia. You allow this crap to control your access to DNS. You hurt yourself only, not the real world.
No, the PSTN signaling (what the OP talked about when discussing MODEMs) would be used at 2400 baud. It never went higher. It went to higher bps based on multiple bits per transition. Still 2400baud.
E
(P.S. This has little to do with RS232. That's just the serial standard to communicate with the MODEM. The MODEM talked on the PSTN at the baud rates up to 2400baud).
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> "There's an App for that..."
Sure, but it wasn't approved for the iStore.
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Hari Seldon wrote all about it.
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Lots of don't sleep.
Poor Steve.
Jobs' empire is falling down around him.
All hail FOSS, Linux, Android, and no more closed-source.
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I like the thought, and others have commented on gun safety. Here's mine:
YOU leave YOUR apartment unlocked.
Bad guy enters YOUR apartment and uses YOUR telephone to make prank, obscene, or threatening phone calls.
The Court finds that YOU didn't make any of those calls.
YOU should not be fined because it's YOUR choice to lock or unlock your apartment.
YOU are blameless.
I guess it's not unusual to find the world mollycoddling the "Big Content" slimeballs.
E
HAD you done this on your OWN TIME using your OWN RESOURCES then this isn't part of the "temporary employment" you were in.
Sadly, you didn't. While you included open-source projects to be successful faster... the end result has a copyright owned by your employer.
THEY CANNOT use this without properly administering the rights of the open-source projects they use. These are license-dependent... and I'm guessing by your email that some? or all? are GPL.
It's a thorny issue, but there is an EASY ANSWER and a HARD QUESTION.
EASY ANSWER: Your university can contribute YOUR contributions under the GPL and open-source it.
HARD QUESTION: Which licenses of the software you used have conditions which PREVENT that software from being used in a software program/package with a conflicting license, and which NON-conflicting license would your "temporary employers" be willing to live by so that they can continue to use it.
Otherwise, your "temporary employers" are in potential violation of the licenses of the software included in the package they are using.
Nobody said this was simple.
E
Seriously, a "neophyte" knows CSS?
Why didn't she just write it in Klingon. "A Neophyte can understand this... if they know Klingon."
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What a bunch of crap. Congrats for getting /. to repeat it. This is all crap.
Now go worrying about something real...
This isn't it.
E
Sorry, but there's nobody for you to "vote out."
I'm so sorry you don't understand commerce and democracy.
Best regards to your "chucklehead" (retarded) self.
E
"what do we do about it?"
Quit whining.
There's nothing "we" can do about it.
The company(s) losing 50,000 barrels a day at $100/barrel are working on it.
When did it become ok to whine?
E
First, my congratulations on your honor. Assuming you're a US citizen, and assuming you're NOT an elected government official nor employed by the government, enjoy said honor! Ehud http://topics.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state."
You're so cute. You're confusing the "desire" (exists) with the "incredible" (doesn't exist).
Immature is discussing or defending the discussion of stuff that hasn't been release.
(there's no such thing as "counterpoint upsides" lol).
Welcome to the modern world. Try not to invent English expressions OR hardware that don't exist.
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The "incredible" is not even released.
There are many phones that are already Android-powered and make the apple toy irrelevant.
- wifi tethering - the Droid does
- freedom to select an app steve jobs didn't approve with his pedophile priest - the Droid does
- open-source - the Droid does
Sorry iCrap, the Droid does...
E
You don't get to "fight" for anything in another country. They have their laws.
Now start fighting for liberties in THIS country and stop being an ass.
E
Israel isn't the exception. The US is. This is the only country to have certified the use of the apple toy.
We make a big deal of having people who come to OUR country respect OUR laws. That means a cellphone jammer that's legal in the UK cannot be brought nor used into this country. Laptops get confiscated and searched at the border, and people are interrogated about cash. We can discuss the libertarian aspects in the other 1700 threads... BUT
Israel is doing no differently than WE do. Their communication ministry (equivalent of our FCC) dictates what is ok and what isn't, and just as the apple toys are not certified for use in Europe they are not certified for use in Israel.
I'm sorry you don't like that your laptop can be confiscated. I'm sorry you think it would be worse if you're on a business trip. Don't bring drugs to Singapore, icrap to Israel, or laptops with kiddie porn to the US. You'll lose them and your liberty.
This "article" is worthless because it implies Israel is the exception. In fact it's we who are the exception.
Time to drop the false sense of outrage and enlightenment and respect other countries rights not to live by our (US) laws.
E
They don't dare use nuclear weapons against nuclear nations out of fear of retaliation.
Now they won't use it against non-nuclear nations.
Pussies. Thanks for making our nuclear "arsenal" utterly pointless.
E
I think this discussion is turtUous...
But the quoted article discusses tort law and that's tortIous.
All of it is torturous.
Ehud
Yes, of course. 13 years old kids in 1974 got access to UI computer systems without paying for timeshare.
Our hero, managed to take a whole room of "terminals" offline with one existing command.
And now [queue evil music] 36 years later, having done nothing of note ever, he now seeks his hard-earned fame.
First ever DoS... or 49 year old sociopath longing for publicity... or just a liar. You decide. I already have.
E
Or they'll blame it on Linux-users.
FORTUNATELY the Department of Homeland Security said they'll be monitoring Twitter until the olympics are over.
Maybe if Kevin Smith had less than 3.5oz liquids they can help him.
"We're from the government and we're here to help." -- SNL
E
There will be a 60" Vizio plasma, a XVGA 3-M projector TV with a 3M screen, 5.1 surround off the Onkyo, and plenty of food.
*** I WILL BE CHARGING *** But only to watch the game. The burgers, brats, dogs, and fixin's are all free.
Some details:
The burgers will be Coleman natural.
The brats will be Emerill.
The dogs will be Hebrew National 100% beef.
THERE WILL BE BEER (Free, as in FREE BEER) and WINE and SCOTCH (single-malt only).
Right now I'm thinking Heineken mini-kegs, but this could change if the weather allows large chest of microbrews.
Attendance to anyone 21 years of age or older is open with ticket. Tickets buy you the right to view The SuperBowl in my house.
E
P.S. Authorized legal representatives of the NFL can contact my attorney. Martindale Hubbell 60189.
Good question. Regulatory powers in the non-US countries start from the Government, and then the PTTs and then carriers.
In the US the carriers are treated as regulated entities ONLY insofar as the tariff services [basically there is a core set of service that they say they will provide, and there is a tariff rate for it, but anything else isn't evaluated].
The second part of the problem is it takes 2-3 years for a consumer complaint [if not summarily dismissed] to get to the point where a regulatory agency [50 states and one Federal] would investigate... and often the "conclusion" they reach is an agreement to pay the government money to not get into more trouble.
The US leads the way in lots of things, but regulatory oversight of cellular telephone carriers is not one of those things.
E
The question is clear and other people's answers appear to have the same problem I do -- namely that it's unclear WHAT kind of service you want (good voice quality, good data quality, good SMS, pricing, etc.) and no criteria for "Best."
At this point I could stop having criticized the question, but instead let me offer you some answers, and you can pick and choose.
I have a Nokia N900 on a T-Mobile "all you can eat" plan. The plan is great. The phone is great. In my area T-Mobile can't hold a call.
I have a Motorola Droid on a Verizon "don't eat very much but enjoy your meal" plan. The plan is so so. The phone is almost great. Verizon coverage for voice and data is awesome here.
I have a Treo 700wx running Windows Mobile 5. I believe it's three years old. It was my Verizon phone prior to the Droid, and while it was annoying in requiring reboots and factory defaults, it was reliable. I did not love it very much tho, as I'm not a big fan of Windows Mobile. Here it works on SPRINT or Verizon, which are good.
If you go 1 hour north, there are totally different carrier coverages. However, on their respective maps they all appear to have equally good coverage here or there.
SO: When asking what is the best US Cell company, realize that
1. There are different companies throughout different parts, regions, and even cities in the same country.
2. Some companies (e.g. Cricket) resell limited services of some other companies (e.g. SPRINT or Qwest or Verizon within a limited geo. area where I am)
3. Some companies (e.g. Verizon) are an amalgamation of other companies, and their services vary greatly. (Verizon *in this area* formerly Cellular One formerly Bell Atlantic)
4. Data services and voice services are a function of many different things including how they provision service to the cell sites. Literally moving two miles away may get you 700Kbps on 3G data and good phone service, but the other way no data and decent phone service.
5. SMS is something I consider critical. Others do not.
So, in sum, to wind up this post, Voice Coverage, Data Coverage, SMS Coverage, and availability of phones are what can be used to judge the best US Cell company -- in my little neighborhood. Your conclusions 5 miles away will vary.
Good luck with your quest.
E
Who am I kidding.
E
Yes, those are powers of 2. Yes, those conclusions are correct. Poppa Poster is correct. Original poster is a dolt.
Editors that approved dolt are bigger dolts.
Cheers and all that.
E
AuDA is the epitome of an organization that is operating outside its moral guidelines.
AuDA should be removed and a responsible organization put in its place,
Sorry, Australia. You allow this crap to control your access to DNS. You hurt yourself only, not the real world.
E
E (P.S. This has little to do with RS232. That's just the serial standard to communicate with the MODEM. The MODEM talked on the PSTN at the baud rates up to 2400baud).