I think the cop was probably telling the truth.
He reported what he saw - The guy making a telephone
call then pointing, and the crowd going to where he pointed. He had no reason to lie. If
he did have, he would have made up a more solid
case. But this is merely circumstantial evidence.
Quite how he was found guilty on this is
questionable. Maybe the judge just didn't like
the look of him.
As far as I understand it, a smaller die size simply allows you to run the chip at a higher clock speed without it melting. A.13 micron chip running at 1000MHZ will be as fast as a.18 micron chip running at 1000MHz.
If you come up with some new thing unrelated to
your work, then it is unrelated to your job and therefore does not belong to the company.
If you write it on company time, then they might have a
claim to it. My contract specified that anything
that I write was company property unless it was
developed totally in my own time. This would
probably include coming with the idea at work
I guess. But they can't prove I came up with it at work.
If I was looking for a buffer overflow, I think I'd try inputting a huge amount of data to every possible input and see what makes it crash rather than try to read the code.
I don't think Linux wil cause a problem since I'm sure that it is restricted to GPL v2.0
Doesn't HIRD use a bunch of GPL'ed apps + a BSD microkernel?
I think the article missed the point somewhere. Or they just said what they said in a misleading way. If you prevent people from linking, then surely it ges both ways, and its illegal to run GPL'ed apps on a non-GPL'ed OS.
Except its worse. For various historic reasons, several European countries have a single day of the week that elections may take place (In England it's only on a Thursday. Most countries choose Saturday). This means that for European MP elections, some countries have to wait several days for a result to be published.
I don't see this as a major problem. The results will be published. We know when they will be published. A few days doesn't hurt. A few hours certainly wouldn't.
This shouldn't cause a major problem. I'm sure
those with 16 million IP's will be willing to
give some away. Surely the whole Class A/B/C thing
is obsolete now.
Quartering troops in the homes of known dissidents might be an effective intimidation tactic if it were allowed. BR True, but I don't think that was why it was incorporated.
If English History is anything to go by, the English army was
notorious for actaing as though all property was theirs at least during the Wars of The Roses. It seems quite
conceivable that this was a common in pre-revolution America as well.
You may have a point. I think a good lawyer
would be able to make a case for Sealand being
British territory. Probably by arguing that it
was never an independent country. Considering
the amount of money that various extremey rich
people have invested in it, the legal battle
would probably go on for so long that Microsoft's
copyright would have expired.
The earlier comment suggested that the UK Gov.
should just use pig headed arrogance,
assume it's their property and demolish it.
Sealand could sue for damages, but it wuldn't
be worth it.
They may very well have the kind of leverage to get the US government to pressure whichever countries supply SeaLand's bandwidth to have SeaLand cut off
The US would have to pressure a few North Sea countries (All reasonably wealthy with no real dependence on the US) essentially as a favour to a corporation currently being tried for monopolistic practices. Of course, MS could directly approach those countries.
If I took out your appendix, would that make me a doctor?
No, but it would make you a surgeon.
Were he a journalist and he did steal internal documents, he'd have no special protection from the law.
No, but if the stolen documents revealed unethical behaviour, and the public had a need to know, that could be used as extenuating circumstances.
Of course, as a journalist he should have made an effort to inform as many people as possible. Posting it on a free web server is not the best way to do this. There's nothing morally wrong about it, its just a pathetic thing to do. Posting it on an @home newsgroup is more sensible, but @home control that. Of course, a new service that people actually read (for example Slashdot or infoworld) would probably be more than happy to publish.
Good question. This is a guess since I'm one of the few coders in the world not to have written a text editor. I'd probably start with a 256 byte array for each line of text.
Then we need a data structure of line pointers. Linked lists are too slow to search. A tree could be used except it would suck. Most lines are added at the bottom giving an unbalanced tree turning it into a linked list. This points to a balancing tree. Something which I hate because they're fiddly to debug.
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People want to write text editors. Why? Because it means you learn something. Text editors are fairly simple, but not trivial. For Example, how do you handle data? An array? Not really good for insertion. A linked list? No. So to find out, you write an editor. Once its written, you magically know!
Once you have a trivial thing with the usual cut/copy/paste/delete/search/replace operations then its about as good as all the others. Adding extra features to your own code is a lot easier than adding other features to everyone elses.n
I don't trust public opinion as reported in the newspapers.
This is just an example. Other people are much better at this than me. This is based on an idea from the BBC comedy series Yes, Prime Minister.
1. Do you feel that children should be subjected to pornography?
2. Do you feel that children are affected by hate speech?
3. Do you feel that schools have a responsibility to protect children?
4. Are you in favour of schools using pornography filtering software?
Or alternatively
1. Are you in favour of freedom of speech?
2. Do you feel that children should be allowed to learn without restriction?
3. Should we rely on buggy computer software to tell us what our rights are?
4. Are you in favour of Censorship software in schools?
Simply publish the last result. It says whatever you want it to say.
You can even bias it by asking one question. People will be more in favour of schools installing filtering software to protect children that installing censorship software to restrict access to the internet.
5) Even if Nader doesn't win, he might get a sufficiently large proportion of the votes to persuade others that it isn't a waste to vote for a third party.
Some oppose it outright and refuse to use any of this 'modern technology'. friggin luddites.
Its not as easy as you make out. If they're left to discoever the benefits they never will. Just converting directly doesn't work. The methods these teachers use are optimised for blackboards and projectors. To use the new technology they need to know what can be done. They need to be shown what it can do. Until then they're fumbling in the dark, and the new system is next to useless.
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I think the cop was probably telling the truth. He reported what he saw - The guy making a telephone call then pointing, and the crowd going to where he pointed. He had no reason to lie. If he did have, he would have made up a more solid case. But this is merely circumstantial evidence. Quite how he was found guilty on this is questionable. Maybe the judge just didn't like the look of him.
So if you write a program that (for example) allows people to trade mp3's, or decodes DVD's then you have full copyright.
As far as I understand it, a smaller die size simply allows you to run the chip at a higher clock speed without it melting. A .13 micron chip running at 1000MHZ will be as fast as a .18 micron chip running at 1000MHz.
If you come up with some new thing unrelated to your work, then it is unrelated to your job and therefore does not belong to the company.
If you write it on company time, then they might have a claim to it. My contract specified that anything that I write was company property unless it was developed totally in my own time. This would probably include coming with the idea at work I guess. But they can't prove I came up with it at work.
You seem to have been misled by an obvious satirical article. "Nationally agreed standards"? Would be great for a US only internet.
I love the way he points out that White hat hacking is the way to secure servers, but suggests that any tool that might be useful should be banned.
Naah. DOS is totally immune from DOS attacks. No service, therefore no denial.
I get them in my .co.uk mailbox.
If I was looking for a buffer overflow, I think I'd try inputting a huge amount of data to every possible input and see what makes it crash rather than try to read the code.
I don't think Linux wil cause a problem since I'm sure that it is restricted to GPL v2.0
Doesn't HIRD use a bunch of GPL'ed apps + a BSD microkernel?
I think the article missed the point somewhere. Or they just said what they said in a misleading way. If you prevent people from linking, then surely it ges both ways, and its illegal to run GPL'ed apps on a non-GPL'ed OS.
Except its worse. For various historic reasons, several European countries have a single day of the week that elections may take place (In England it's only on a Thursday. Most countries choose Saturday). This means that for European MP elections, some countries have to wait several days for a result to be published.
I don't see this as a major problem. The results will be published. We know when they will be published. A few days doesn't hurt. A few hours certainly wouldn't.
This shouldn't cause a major problem. I'm sure those with 16 million IP's will be willing to give some away. Surely the whole Class A/B/C thing is obsolete now.
Quartering troops in the homes of known dissidents might be an effective intimidation tactic if it were allowed.
BR True, but I don't think that was why it was incorporated. If English History is anything to go by, the English army was notorious for actaing as though all property was theirs at least during the Wars of The Roses. It seems quite conceivable that this was a common in pre-revolution America as well.
You may have a point. I think a good lawyer would be able to make a case for Sealand being British territory. Probably by arguing that it was never an independent country. Considering the amount of money that various extremey rich people have invested in it, the legal battle would probably go on for so long that Microsoft's copyright would have expired.
The earlier comment suggested that the UK Gov. should just use pig headed arrogance, assume it's their property and demolish it. Sealand could sue for damages, but it wuldn't be worth it.
They may very well have the kind of leverage to get the US government to pressure whichever countries supply SeaLand's bandwidth to have SeaLand cut off
The US would have to pressure a few North Sea countries (All reasonably wealthy with no real dependence on the US) essentially as a favour to a corporation currently being tried for monopolistic practices. Of course, MS could directly approach those countries.
If someone wants to buy medication from my company then I want to know who they are
Seems sensible. You need to know who to send it to.
(so I can sell their address to junk mail corps).
But since this ais a German site, European data protection laws apply.
Or maybe: If someone wants to make phone calls in our country then our government should know who they are and where they are calling.
The person you're calling is entitled to know who you are though.
If I took out your appendix, would that make me a doctor?
No, but it would make you a surgeon.
Were he a journalist and he did steal internal documents, he'd have no special protection from the law.
No, but if the stolen documents revealed unethical behaviour, and the public had a need to know, that could be used as extenuating circumstances.
Of course, as a journalist he should have made an effort to inform as many people as possible. Posting it on a free web server is not the best way to do this. There's nothing morally wrong about it, its just a pathetic thing to do. Posting it on an @home newsgroup is more sensible, but @home control that. Of course, a new service that people actually read (for example Slashdot or infoworld) would probably be more than happy to publish.
Would have made a rather dull movie if the guy chose Tic-Tac-Toe instead though.
How about magnetising handles so that peoples hands stick to them? Thats what happened in the film.
Yeah, I've got one of them. Its great. It gives neutrons a positive charge and makes the human body magnetic.
Got to love the scientific accuracy of that film.
Good question. This is a guess since I'm one of the few coders in the world not to have written a text editor. I'd probably start with a 256 byte array for each line of text.
Then we need a data structure of line pointers. Linked lists are too slow to search. A tree could be used except it would suck. Most lines are added at the bottom giving an unbalanced tree turning it into a linked list. This points to a balancing tree. Something which I hate because they're fiddly to debug.
People want to write text editors. Why? Because it means you learn something. Text editors are fairly simple, but not trivial. For Example, how do you handle data? An array? Not really good for insertion. A linked list? No. So to find out, you write an editor. Once its written, you magically know!
Once you have a trivial thing with the usual cut/copy/paste/delete/search/replace operations then its about as good as all the others. Adding extra features to your own code is a lot easier than adding other features to everyone elses.n
I don't trust public opinion as reported in the newspapers.
This is just an example. Other people are much better at this than me. This is based on an idea from the BBC comedy series Yes, Prime Minister.
1. Do you feel that children should be subjected to pornography?
2. Do you feel that children are affected by hate speech?
3. Do you feel that schools have a responsibility to protect children?
4. Are you in favour of schools using pornography filtering software?
Or alternatively
1. Are you in favour of freedom of speech?
2. Do you feel that children should be allowed to learn without restriction?
3. Should we rely on buggy computer software to tell us what our rights are?
4. Are you in favour of Censorship software in schools?
Simply publish the last result. It says whatever you want it to say.
You can even bias it by asking one question. People will be more in favour of schools installing filtering software to protect children that installing censorship software to restrict access to the internet.
Thats a lot of RAM for a 386. My first 486 had 4 megs. I was shocked when one of my friends told me he had 16 Megs.
I only said text mode since I know that just about any 386 will deal with that. Even a really crappy one.
5) Even if Nader doesn't win, he might get a sufficiently large proportion of the votes to persuade others that it isn't a waste to vote for a third party.
Some oppose it outright and refuse to use any of this 'modern technology'. friggin luddites.
Its not as easy as you make out. If they're left to discoever the benefits they never will. Just converting directly doesn't work. The methods these teachers use are optimised for blackboards and projectors. To use the new technology they need to know what can be done. They need to be shown what it can do. Until then they're fumbling in the dark, and the new system is next to useless.