So can they get in trouble for that? I know that if you went out of your way to avoid getting served papers in various other regards (e.g. if you hid from your ex-wife's lawyers) you'd get arrested.
You're almost certainly thinking of tritium - which isn't used in all (or even most) modern H-bombs - Pu-239 has a halflife of something like 30 millenia.
I'd also note that quantum encryption needs an end-to-end dedicated link. I can't imagine the NSA dragging fiber cables into each home so we can securely view their site.
The lake is pretty much stirred up by convection and such. Some mercury compounds, or equally dense stuff, might be at the bottom; not that many pollutants would be near the top, but I doubt it matters that much (if convection couldn't stir things up, people in Denve would be breathing pure nitrogen).
Having lived in Rochester, and gone to college in Buffalo - the incoming water is largely the Niagara River. If you can imagine significantly heating 4 times the amount of water that goes over the falls (most of it goes to power) then I'd be amazed. Cooling buildings is a much lower heat load than cooling a nuclear plant (the major cause of heat pollution in rivers, not lakes).
Also, the great lakes have ice around their shores every winter. If this project adds a bit more ice during the summer, then slightly less ice will form during the winter. Lake Ontario is 1639 KM^3, which leads me to think that a few dozen office buildings are not going to cause it to heat to any ecologically significant extent. In any event, conventional air conditioning uses more energy, so by definition dumps more heat in the environment.
That's actually a non-issue too. Drinking water spends a good amount of time under the street in pipes below the frost line - which is why it's cool in your house summer or winter. Also, most tap water is used by toilets, slightly less by washing machines, showers, and very little for drinking - and those few people who are concerned about it being really cold can add an ice cube or two.
I have a patent from 1997 that Microsoft is in direct violation of! For the information of the slashdot community, excepts from the patent appear below.
A MECHANISM FOR PATENTING REALLY DUMBASS OBVIOUS SHIT RELATING TO SOFTWARE, AND SETTLING OUT OF COURT WITH SMALL BUSINESSES WHO HAVE BEEN DOING THE AFOREMENTIONED OBVIOUS SHIT ROUGHLY FOREVER
Claimed:
1. A mechanism for patenting obvious shit relating to software, the Internet, or ecommerce
2. A method for inserting buzzwords such as "over packet-switched TCP/IP," "using a client-server model," "using extensions to a standard HTTP server," "in a large-scale enterprise" and other buzzwords in said patents to make them seem less obvious and/or shitful.
3. A method for searching the web using search engines to locate small businesses who are already using said obvious shit
4. A method for settling out of court with said businesses, in the event that they are unable to pay for legal defense...
as you can see microsoft is in clear violation, so I'll sue them.
It depends if it relies on things that CD-ROM drives don't correct for, such as slightly invalid formats.
If it uses autoplay to install a driver, Linux, which doesn't support autoplay and couldn't run a windoze driver if it wanted to, will have no problem. It'd be like trying to use dutch elm disease against soldiers.
Also, keep in mind that (no duh) the Linux drivers for IDE devices are written completely separately from the Windows ones, and have different vulnerabilities (and if they have the same vunerabilities, then fine, I'll wait 3 days, emerge sync && emerge -uD world && genkernel all && emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx hotplug emu10k1 and I'm all set).
Yeah, well, if you want to run HURD, you'll have to install it yourself, I guess. It's free software, so you'd think they could legally bundle it with a music CD, but must have decided not to.
Maybe the album couldn't be 13 years late?
Now when Macrovision starts incorporating tupperware, I'll be worried - imagine having to push the lid of the jewel case down to burp it before you can move the CD to another device.
I don't think you can trademark an abbreviation, or common noun - hence George Eastmasn couldn't trademark "film" and Intel couldn't trademark processor numbers.
As such, calling it a CD - compact disc - is fine, since it's a disc that's smaller than a record. I think the trademark is "CD-Audio" and the logo.
I've never been able to get an account, and it's not obvious how to do so at all.
I have a yahoo account *now*. I guess I could pay for a blogger account on the off chance that I'd get a gmail invite, but I doubt that will happen.
Maybe ebay *is* the only way to get a gmail account, and I don't see why google has a problem with that, I mean, other companies see their free products up there (complete collection of cracker jack cards or whatever).
If you don't want spyware, why not refuse from agreeing to EULA's that involve it, and run scanning programs like ad-aware? If I don't like my neighbor looking through my window, it's my responsibility to take him to court - I shouldn't try and get a law passed that the police need to go around actively seeking people who peek through windows.
I ran ad-aware every couple days when I used windows.
I would assume that those fines are per conscious act of creating popups that don't comply - not per violation.
I also doubt it applies to all "pop up ads" - it is more likely to apply to e.g. adult ads on unrelated sites, especially those added to IE by spyware.
There is some question about how a web server is supposed to detect what state the recipient is in, though.
Actually, if you suspect you were counted wrong, you can pay some small fee to have your original answer sheet recounted by hand. If there's any discrepancy, they refund your seven bucks, and your score is updated.
Yep yep. Informal poll, how many people here would be willing to teach Diebold about the techniques of "synchronization" or "semaphores" for say a week in consulting fees?
How many of you would have gotten your degrees/certs if you didn't understand that stuff, or answered on an exam/interview that it was impossible?
I'd say at the least open-source the whole thing, after reading Dennis Ritchie's Reflections on Trusting Trust.
And if they want to use a Solaris/PGP style "shared source" license, that's fine, and let RMS cry all he wants. The point is to make sure the votes are counted as cast.
WHat they need is a semaphore. I suggest they talk to their local neighborhood junior CS major for help understanding this complex technology. It allows you to get *tens of thousands* of hits per day before screwing up.
I would also suggest to them having the neutrality of, say, the average slashdot moderator.
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Yep. And then they fight with each other about including a third party that seems likely to snatch votes from the other.
So can they get in trouble for that? I know that if you went out of your way to avoid getting served papers in various other regards (e.g. if you hid from your ex-wife's lawyers) you'd get arrested.
As would something like slackware or debian.
So the cost is comparable to an entry-level geek in the US getting an XP pro license, or a cell phone, or a good MP3 player, or...
Doesn't seem too unreasonable to me.
In Soviet Russia, wouldn't they have to sell Windows 3.0?
You're almost certainly thinking of tritium - which isn't used in all (or even most) modern H-bombs - Pu-239 has a halflife of something like 30 millenia.
I'd also note that quantum encryption needs an end-to-end dedicated link. I can't imagine the NSA dragging fiber cables into each home so we can securely view their site.
The lake is pretty much stirred up by convection and such. Some mercury compounds, or equally dense stuff, might be at the bottom; not that many pollutants would be near the top, but I doubt it matters that much (if convection couldn't stir things up, people in Denve would be breathing pure nitrogen).
Having lived in Rochester, and gone to college in Buffalo - the incoming water is largely the Niagara River. If you can imagine significantly heating 4 times the amount of water that goes over the falls (most of it goes to power) then I'd be amazed. Cooling buildings is a much lower heat load than cooling a nuclear plant (the major cause of heat pollution in rivers, not lakes).
Also, the great lakes have ice around their shores every winter. If this project adds a bit more ice during the summer, then slightly less ice will form during the winter. Lake Ontario is 1639 KM^3, which leads me to think that a few dozen office buildings are not going to cause it to heat to any ecologically significant extent. In any event, conventional air conditioning uses more energy, so by definition dumps more heat in the environment.
That's actually a non-issue too. Drinking water spends a good amount of time under the street in pipes below the frost line - which is why it's cool in your house summer or winter. Also, most tap water is used by toilets, slightly less by washing machines, showers, and very little for drinking - and those few people who are concerned about it being really cold can add an ice cube or two.
Uhm tell that to Linda Tripp...
I have a patent from 1997 that Microsoft is in direct violation of! For the information of the slashdot community, excepts from the patent appear below.
...
A MECHANISM FOR PATENTING REALLY DUMBASS OBVIOUS SHIT RELATING TO SOFTWARE, AND SETTLING OUT OF COURT WITH SMALL BUSINESSES WHO HAVE BEEN DOING THE AFOREMENTIONED OBVIOUS SHIT ROUGHLY FOREVER
Claimed:
1. A mechanism for patenting obvious shit relating to software, the Internet, or ecommerce
2. A method for inserting buzzwords such as "over packet-switched TCP/IP," "using a client-server model," "using extensions to a standard HTTP server," "in a large-scale enterprise" and other buzzwords in said patents to make them seem less obvious and/or shitful.
3. A method for searching the web using search engines to locate small businesses who are already using said obvious shit
4. A method for settling out of court with said businesses, in the event that they are unable to pay for legal defense
as you can see microsoft is in clear violation, so I'll sue them.
You *can* trademark a common noun in a novel context - "Apple Computer," "Big Mac," "Mandrake."
What you can't do is trademark it in a situation where others might very likely want to use it for reasons unrelated to pretending to be you.
It depends if it relies on things that CD-ROM drives don't correct for, such as slightly invalid formats.
If it uses autoplay to install a driver, Linux, which doesn't support autoplay and couldn't run a windoze driver if it wanted to, will have no problem. It'd be like trying to use dutch elm disease against soldiers.
Also, keep in mind that (no duh) the Linux drivers for IDE devices are written completely separately from the Windows ones, and have different vulnerabilities (and if they have the same vunerabilities, then fine, I'll wait 3 days, emerge sync && emerge -uD world && genkernel all && emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx hotplug emu10k1 and I'm all set).
Yeah, well, if you want to run HURD, you'll have to install it yourself, I guess. It's free software, so you'd think they could legally bundle it with a music CD, but must have decided not to.
Maybe the album couldn't be 13 years late?
Now when Macrovision starts incorporating tupperware, I'll be worried - imagine having to push the lid of the jewel case down to burp it before you can move the CD to another device.
I don't think you can trademark an abbreviation, or common noun - hence George Eastmasn couldn't trademark "film" and Intel couldn't trademark processor numbers.
As such, calling it a CD - compact disc - is fine, since it's a disc that's smaller than a record. I think the trademark is "CD-Audio" and the logo.
I signed up, nothing so far, thanks though :).
I've never been able to get an account, and it's not obvious how to do so at all.
I have a yahoo account *now*. I guess I could pay for a blogger account on the off chance that I'd get a gmail invite, but I doubt that will happen.
Maybe ebay *is* the only way to get a gmail account, and I don't see why google has a problem with that, I mean, other companies see their free products up there (complete collection of cracker jack cards or whatever).
If you don't want spyware, why not refuse from agreeing to EULA's that involve it, and run scanning programs like ad-aware? If I don't like my neighbor looking through my window, it's my responsibility to take him to court - I shouldn't try and get a law passed that the police need to go around actively seeking people who peek through windows.
I ran ad-aware every couple days when I used windows.
I would assume that those fines are per conscious act of creating popups that don't comply - not per violation.
I also doubt it applies to all "pop up ads" - it is more likely to apply to e.g. adult ads on unrelated sites, especially those added to IE by spyware.
There is some question about how a web server is supposed to detect what state the recipient is in, though.
Actually, if you suspect you were counted wrong, you can pay some small fee to have your original answer sheet recounted by hand. If there's any discrepancy, they refund your seven bucks, and your score is updated.
Do you expect Diebold to do that?
Yep yep. Informal poll, how many people here would be willing to teach Diebold about the techniques of "synchronization" or "semaphores" for say a week in consulting fees?
How many of you would have gotten your degrees/certs if you didn't understand that stuff, or answered on an exam/interview that it was impossible?
I'd say at the least open-source the whole thing, after reading Dennis Ritchie's Reflections on Trusting Trust.
And if they want to use a Solaris/PGP style "shared source" license, that's fine, and let RMS cry all he wants. The point is to make sure the votes are counted as cast.
WHat they need is a semaphore. I suggest they talk to their local neighborhood junior CS major for help understanding this complex technology. It allows you to get *tens of thousands* of hits per day before screwing up.
I would also suggest to them having the neutrality of, say, the average slashdot moderator.
So Transmeta is useless?