I presume you mean "Detective" as a police title, and not as a reference to a P.I., right?
A P.I. can no more raid someones house than you or I can. And it would be the same thing: at the very least, trespass, and possibly a variety of other complications, like assault, burglary, etc.
good read up on a chem textbook regarding bases ( like calcium carbonate )
Just for the record, calcium carbonate (yes, it's the same stuff Tums is made of) is actually a buffer, not a base. Go grab yourself a litmus strip and several Tums. Crush the Tums up and dissolve them in a cup of water. Play with the litmus enough to convince yourself that your solution has a pH of 7.
Good analysis, but there is one minor correction to make: Microsoft is, at least for the short term, sticking to their own proprietary protocol for MSN Messenger (meant for your average Joe using Windows at home). Microsoft's use of SIP/SIMPLE is in their Microsoft Messenger product (deceptively similar to their MSN Messenger product, but done by a different group within Microsoft, called RTC -- or "Real Time Communications").
Microsoft Messenger, the one that uses SIP/SIMPLE, is aimed at the enterprise market, with the key focus being secure, encrypted communications among a huge number of enterprises. The RTC SIP/SIMPLE server comes bundled with Windows 2003 Server (at least, as of SP1), and Windows Messenger comes with Windows XP. That means that anyone deploying a Microsoft network in their enterprise automatically has a ready-to-go instant messaging network that provides secure, logged, inter-company (if your admin allows it) communications. Not just IM, but full-fledged voice and video communications. Setting it up is as easy as adding a user to the domain.
And the cool part? The whole network is using SIP/SIMPLE, so you can write your own servers and clients to talk to it if you want to.
To be clear: the recently approved XMPP document doesn't say how to do presence at all. That is going to be described in a different document that the IESG has not approved yet. That doesn't mean that XMPP hasn't figured out how to do presence, simply that their document describing how to do it hasn't been approved.
Interestingly enough, the SIMPLE specifications for doing the same thing are in exactly the same state as XMPP's: essentially finalized, awaiting approval by the IESG. And, yes, that includes the ability to create and manipulate a list of users on the server. I can point you at the relevant documents for both SIMPLE and XMPP, if you're interested.
Ummm... if by "not standardized" you mean to imply that XMPP's aproval for publication (not actual publication, which will take months still) puts it in a more advanced state than SIP, then you are horribly off the mark. SIP has already been published as RFC 3261, which updated RFC 2543, published almost five years ago. You can do instant messaging with SIP by using the mechanism described in RFC 3428.
To ensure compatibility, both the SIP IM stuff (done in a working group called SIMPLE) and the XMPP IM stuff conform to RFC 2778 and RFC 2779, which means that they are very much compatible, given an appropriate gateway. In fact, when XMPP is finished with their work (the document that was just approved is only their first document, and doesn't even describe how to do instant messaging), you'll be able to send signed and encrypted messages back and forth between the systems.
And while people have already written gateways between the protocols, you are more than welcome to add another one to the growing pile -- but I might suggest that you have a lot of learning to do first.
A war on an action anyone can do can not end. The Bush administration has started a war that will never end, a war that they can exploit to give them a lot of power they are not intended to have (and have done so). This situation scares me.
<irony> Ummm... the "war on drugs" was started long before W was in office. If I recall, it was a Reagan thing. But I agree with your analysis 100%. </irony>
Now that Saddam is captured, the US will be able to ask (interrogate) him as to where the oil is. If it exists, he will be the one who knows where it is. If it is then not found in short order, we will know beyond any reasonable doubt that the administration has misled us.
Yeah, Solaris got a bad rap for speed. Having played around with both Linux and Solaris on x86 and Sparc chips, though, I offer you the following observations:
Solaris x86: Fast
Solaris Sparc: Slow
Linux x86: Fast
Linux Sparc: Slow
A casual examination shows that the problem is the dog-slow processor that you usually find Solaris on, not the OS itself.
I agree 100%. The reason I have set up aggressive ad blocking in Firebird is because I can't stand the hyperactive seizure-inducing multicolor flashing ads that have apparently become popular. Simple staic ads, I have no problem with. I even click on them from time to time if the advertised service sounds interesting. But the decision by some advertizers to go the "annoy the crap out of them" route has ruined it for everyone -- at least, as far as my eyeballs are concerned.
When did defending KKK members' first amendment rights become part of a left-wing agenda?
The ACLU has taken a lot of crap for defending arbitrary constitutional rights of groups and individuals that are as far removed from "leftist" ideals as possible. Being obviously more familiar with the ACLU's past behavior, I'm reasonably certain that their position on this issue is that the behavior of the filtering software is reprehensible.
That said, the whole issue hardly has any constitutional implications until some gorvernment agency becomes involved. Neither the NRA nor Symantec qualify.
Last I checked (about 5 years ago), the going price for a working C-64 was on the order of $10. Of course, they're probably becoming scarce nowadays. I'm glad I kept mine.:)
Is Steve Bennett still Intuit's President and CEO? The same Steve Bennett who said, "Now, for a small but very vocal group of people, product activation is a crusade. But for the vast majority of our customers, it's a non-issue. And for Intuit it's a big opportunity," and then continued, "One of the things I think is important here for all investors to understand is that despite all the nervousness they hopefully see what we see, that it's not having much if any impact on our business. There's a lot of people out there that have agendas that are different than just pure consumer agendas. I think one of these things that we're looking at hard is who are some of these people that are saying these things about product activation and it's not all just straight consumer feedback, so there are some good consumer feedback and there are some other people who have other agendas on these boards. So I think it's important that for investors to see through some of this and what's really going on."
I'd throw that heavily in the "Intuit really doesn't care what customers think about this issue" camp. It was a smug, unrepenatant, and ignorant stance for the company to take. It took nearly a year for them to finally eat Bennett's words and apologize. And they don't even have the decency to send me a letter doing it, either, supposedly out of fear that I might not open it.
The statistcs proved that for every copy we gave out, it was the same copy that at least 15 other people had already used.
For this matter, I'll take Intuit's president's word over yours: "Last year, we got paid for only about a third of the... federal returns prepared and filed on TurboTax desktop products." Three is much smaller than fifteen, and much more beleivable.
What are you talking about? I've read through all the FAQs on the StarRoms site, and none of them have anything like that. Post a link to the FAQ you're reading, please.
Hmmm... My Yahoo! buddy list contains on the order of 180 people. My AIM buddy list has 7. I don't even use MSN or ICQ. I think it depends on the community you associate with.
I'm sure that if incompatibility is introduced, Trillian and Co. will be quick to conform
Except that some of the articles on the upcoming MSN protocol imply that there will be some form of cryptographic signing of messages. If this is true, it means that compatibility without somehow backing out the key will be impossible -- and, of course, backing out the key will fall quite squarely into DMCA issues.
Be careful. You are dangerously close to creating another Slashdot meme (if you haven't already).
Prison rape will start showing up in other, unrelated threads. If you don't knock it off, "prison rape" will become the next annoyance in the long chain of "In Soviet Russia...", "1) foo 2) ??? 3) profit!", "Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of..." SCO, Hot Grits, First Post, Natalie Portman, goatse.cx, etc.
I personally don't want this to happen because of the unfortunate combinations that can be formed by crossing the "prison rape" meme with the "beowulf cluster" meme.
Further, none of them turn on without noticeable delay
I can tell that the last time you touched a compact fluorescent bulb was at least 2 years ago. With rare exception, CFLs produced today come on instantly.
none (or very few) are rated for operation below about 55 degrees Fahrenheit... and yes they do produce heat.
In extreme cold, I've found CFLs to be slow-starting and dim at first. Luckily, they do produce enough heat to generally warm themselves to the point that they run at full brightness within a few minutes. Well over half my outside lights are fluorescent, and they seem to start rather reliably, even in sub-freezing temperatures.
Not to mention all those starters/ballasts which burn out now and then.
Ah, now you're talking about standard, old-fashioned tubes. Truth is, I can bother myself to go through the effort of replacing the ballast once every 30 years or so.
Common point of confusion: "innocent until proven guilty" is applicable to criminal law. In general, the type of copyright violations to which this kind of "enforcement" would be applicable tends to be civil.
In civil cases, the standard is "a preponderence of evidence." Remember, civil cases involve two private entities coming to the state to settle a dispute. At the outset, the law has no judgement about which private party is correct; final judgement is issued based on who presents the most compelling evidence to support their side of the story.
well, that exact piece of code was also published in a book with no restrictions on its use. (publication of the book was approved by SCO, who held the copyright on it at the time)
It was also published in Kernighan and Ritchie's C programming book without restriction when AT&T owned the code.
I think you're still missing the point. Publication, re-publication, and re-re-publication do not release works into the public domain, nor do they grant the readers of those publications any rights beyond fair use. Just because the code was printed on paper and sold does not mean that it can be arbitrarily incorporated elsewhere. That's not how copyright works.
AT&T gave the sources to Unix away free to academic institutions sometime around 1974.
Yes, they did. And they were selling the same code to institutions for $50,000 at the same time, so it certainly wasn't a release into public domain. Stop and think about it; this is copyright, not a trade secret. Just giving someone the source doesn't provide them license to do what they want. The analog would be Bloomsbury Publishing giving free copies of the newest Harry Potter book to schools. Would doing so cause them to surrender their copyright to that work?
Additionally, Caldera made some of the sources available under a BSD style license in Jan. 2002.
That's an interesting twist to the situation, yes. Not only because of the release of certain parts of the code to a rather permissive licence by the rightful owner at the time, but also because it gives some insight about what Caldera's corporate attitude towards the Unix source code copyright might have been in 2001, when the 1973 code would have come up for copyright renewal.
They are going to have a lot of fun trying to show that really ancient pieces of code like that didnt come from sources that were freely released by prior owners of the code.
Which is basically the point I was trying to make: untangling this whole mess is going to be very difficult. And, as much as I want SCO to be absolutely, 100% wrong across the board, I'm not so cocksure as to go off claiming that it's the case before some of this untangling has actually been pursued.
What I'm particularly wary of is the scads of ignorant comments along the lines of, "Look! The code is from before 1978 (or 1973)! SCO didn't even exist! It must not be theirs!" Intellectual property can be bought and sold. The logic of that statement is a sound as claming that there's no way I could possibly own my house because it was built before I was born.
As much as I'd love to see SCO go down in flames over this issue, I think you're missing some important facts.
So, the code is old. That doesn't mean it's public domain. And who wrote it? According to what you cite, Dennis Ritchie. In 1973, Ritchie was working for Bell Labs, developing their Unix system. Yes, Bell Labs, part of AT&T. You know, SysV and all that? The copyrights to that code have subsequently been sold, and are currently held by... The SCO Group.
Whoops.
Prior to January 1, 1978, the copyright term was 28 years. At the end of the 28th year, the copyright period could be renewed for an optional period of 28 years, later extended to 47 years.
1973 is 30 years ago. If the copyright on the code has been properly maintained, that would mean that SCO owns it potentially until January of 2048. If not, the code passed into the public domain back in 2001.
Yes, perhaps it's been infringed on in other places (n.b., however, that Irix and BSD through 4.4 were licencees of the original code, and the the PDP-11 was Dennis Ritchie's development platform at Bell Labs), but this is copyright, not trademark law. Other infringements don't trigger a free-for-all.
This one will take some sorting out. It's certainly not as cut-and-dried as SCO is pretending it to be, but it's hardly clear that we (the Linux crowd) are as correct as we believe, either.
Ummm... but that's only when the power is actually out, and the pump is running on the UPS. Given the choice between replacing a $50 pump and several hundred dollars worth of fish (or a $400 pump versus several thousand for the fish, depending on the size of your setup), I'd choose to replace the pump.
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A P.I. can no more raid someones house than you or I can. And it would be the same thing: at the very least, trespass, and possibly a variety of other complications, like assault, burglary, etc.
Or did you just do a poor job of making stuff up?
Just for the record, calcium carbonate (yes, it's the same stuff Tums is made of) is actually a buffer, not a base. Go grab yourself a litmus strip and several Tums. Crush the Tums up and dissolve them in a cup of water. Play with the litmus enough to convince yourself that your solution has a pH of 7.
But, yes, it does neutralize acids. Bases, too.
Microsoft Messenger, the one that uses SIP/SIMPLE, is aimed at the enterprise market, with the key focus being secure, encrypted communications among a huge number of enterprises. The RTC SIP/SIMPLE server comes bundled with Windows 2003 Server (at least, as of SP1), and Windows Messenger comes with Windows XP. That means that anyone deploying a Microsoft network in their enterprise automatically has a ready-to-go instant messaging network that provides secure, logged, inter-company (if your admin allows it) communications. Not just IM, but full-fledged voice and video communications. Setting it up is as easy as adding a user to the domain.
And the cool part? The whole network is using SIP/SIMPLE, so you can write your own servers and clients to talk to it if you want to.
Interestingly enough, the SIMPLE specifications for doing the same thing are in exactly the same state as XMPP's: essentially finalized, awaiting approval by the IESG. And, yes, that includes the ability to create and manipulate a list of users on the server. I can point you at the relevant documents for both SIMPLE and XMPP, if you're interested.
To ensure compatibility, both the SIP IM stuff (done in a working group called SIMPLE) and the XMPP IM stuff conform to RFC 2778 and RFC 2779, which means that they are very much compatible, given an appropriate gateway. In fact, when XMPP is finished with their work (the document that was just approved is only their first document, and doesn't even describe how to do instant messaging), you'll be able to send signed and encrypted messages back and forth between the systems.
And while people have already written gateways between the protocols, you are more than welcome to add another one to the growing pile -- but I might suggest that you have a lot of learning to do first.
No longer? When was it?
<irony>
Ummm... the "war on drugs" was started long before W was in office. If I recall, it was a Reagan thing. But I agree with your analysis 100%.
</irony>
Now that Saddam is captured, the US will be able to ask (interrogate) him as to where the oil is. If it exists, he will be the one who knows where it is. If it is then not found in short order, we will know beyond any reasonable doubt that the administration has misled us.
Solaris x86: Fast
Solaris Sparc: Slow
Linux x86: Fast
Linux Sparc: Slow
A casual examination shows that the problem is the dog-slow processor that you usually find Solaris on, not the OS itself.
I agree 100%. The reason I have set up aggressive ad blocking in Firebird is because I can't stand the hyperactive seizure-inducing multicolor flashing ads that have apparently become popular. Simple staic ads, I have no problem with. I even click on them from time to time if the advertised service sounds interesting. But the decision by some advertizers to go the "annoy the crap out of them" route has ruined it for everyone -- at least, as far as my eyeballs are concerned.
The ACLU has taken a lot of crap for defending arbitrary constitutional rights of groups and individuals that are as far removed from "leftist" ideals as possible. Being obviously more familiar with the ACLU's past behavior, I'm reasonably certain that their position on this issue is that the behavior of the filtering software is reprehensible.
That said, the whole issue hardly has any constitutional implications until some gorvernment agency becomes involved. Neither the NRA nor Symantec qualify.
Last I checked (about 5 years ago), the going price for a working C-64 was on the order of $10. Of course, they're probably becoming scarce nowadays. I'm glad I kept mine. :)
Is Steve Bennett still Intuit's President and CEO? The same Steve Bennett who said, "Now, for a small but very vocal group of people, product activation is a crusade. But for the vast majority of our customers, it's a non-issue. And for Intuit it's a big opportunity," and then continued, "One of the things I think is important here for all investors to understand is that despite all the nervousness they hopefully see what we see, that it's not having much if any impact on our business. There's a lot of people out there that have agendas that are different than just pure consumer agendas. I think one of these things that we're looking at hard is who are some of these people that are saying these things about product activation and it's not all just straight consumer feedback, so there are some good consumer feedback and there are some other people who have other agendas on these boards. So I think it's important that for investors to see through some of this and what's really going on."
I'd throw that heavily in the "Intuit really doesn't care what customers think about this issue" camp. It was a smug, unrepenatant, and ignorant stance for the company to take. It took nearly a year for them to finally eat Bennett's words and apologize. And they don't even have the decency to send me a letter doing it, either, supposedly out of fear that I might not open it.
For this matter, I'll take Intuit's president's word over yours: "Last year, we got paid for only about a third of the... federal returns prepared and filed on TurboTax desktop products." Three is much smaller than fifteen, and much more beleivable.
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What are you talking about? I've read through all the FAQs on the StarRoms site, and none of them have anything like that. Post a link to the FAQ you're reading, please.
Hmmm... My Yahoo! buddy list contains on the order of 180 people. My AIM buddy list has 7. I don't even use MSN or ICQ. I think it depends on the community you associate with.
Prison rape will start showing up in other, unrelated threads. If you don't knock it off, "prison rape" will become the next annoyance in the long chain of "In Soviet Russia...", "1) foo 2) ??? 3) profit!", "Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of..." SCO, Hot Grits, First Post, Natalie Portman, goatse.cx, etc.
I personally don't want this to happen because of the unfortunate combinations that can be formed by crossing the "prison rape" meme with the "beowulf cluster" meme.
In extreme cold, I've found CFLs to be slow-starting and dim at first. Luckily, they do produce enough heat to generally warm themselves to the point that they run at full brightness within a few minutes. Well over half my outside lights are fluorescent, and they seem to start rather reliably, even in sub-freezing temperatures.
Ah, now you're talking about standard, old-fashioned tubes. Truth is, I can bother myself to go through the effort of replacing the ballast once every 30 years or so.In civil cases, the standard is "a preponderence of evidence." Remember, civil cases involve two private entities coming to the state to settle a dispute. At the outset, the law has no judgement about which private party is correct; final judgement is issued based on who presents the most compelling evidence to support their side of the story.
No need to explain further. I see where you're going with this.
What I'm particularly wary of is the scads of ignorant comments along the lines of, "Look! The code is from before 1978 (or 1973)! SCO didn't even exist! It must not be theirs!" Intellectual property can be bought and sold. The logic of that statement is a sound as claming that there's no way I could possibly own my house because it was built before I was born.
As much as I'd love to see SCO go down in flames over this issue, I think you're missing some important facts.
So, the code is old. That doesn't mean it's public domain. And who wrote it? According to what you cite, Dennis Ritchie. In 1973, Ritchie was working for Bell Labs, developing their Unix system. Yes, Bell Labs, part of AT&T. You know, SysV and all that? The copyrights to that code have subsequently been sold, and are currently held by... The SCO Group.
Whoops.
Prior to January 1, 1978, the copyright term was 28 years. At the end of the 28th year, the copyright period could be renewed for an optional period of 28 years, later extended to 47 years.
1973 is 30 years ago. If the copyright on the code has been properly maintained, that would mean that SCO owns it potentially until January of 2048. If not, the code passed into the public domain back in 2001.
Yes, perhaps it's been infringed on in other places (n.b., however, that Irix and BSD through 4.4 were licencees of the original code, and the the PDP-11 was Dennis Ritchie's development platform at Bell Labs), but this is copyright, not trademark law. Other infringements don't trigger a free-for-all.
This one will take some sorting out. It's certainly not as cut-and-dried as SCO is pretending it to be, but it's hardly clear that we (the Linux crowd) are as correct as we believe, either.
I would mean "a phone that weighs less than your average housecat, with a standby time of more than 12 hours."
Ummm... but that's only when the power is actually out, and the pump is running on the UPS. Given the choice between replacing a $50 pump and several hundred dollars worth of fish (or a $400 pump versus several thousand for the fish, depending on the size of your setup), I'd choose to replace the pump.