you are expected to learn how to program in the first trimester
Gosh, I didn't program until after I was born, and here we have people programming in the first trimester. How, do they hook an acoustic modem to the ultrasound or something?:)
Perhaps I had a computer shipped to me, and the heat sink loosened in transit.
Intel would shut off, AMD would burn, unless the overheat was building up slow enough for it to catch it before it burned.
The AMD thermal shutdown stuff is slow. It can cope with a fan failure - but a heatsink falling off, or even insufficient goop, on a system doing 100% intense CPU (e.g. rendering) means a slowed down or crashed Intel until you fix the problem, or a burned up AMD processor and often motherboard.
That is why sensible states (like Nevada) have a tier system base on risk.
Our system is that low risk offender's info is shared with the authorities only, medium risk is shared with youth orgs, schools, etc (places where children are, basically) and high risk is shared with the community.
The RIAA would be happy to see them go to Federal prison for hard time most people couldn't get through unscathed (a filesharer would probably get turned out in under a week by other inmates). They'd be happy if the penalty was execution.
They likely prefer civil because of the lower standard of evidence (preponderance of the evidence versus guilt beyond a reasonable doubt) and there are less protection for the defendent in a civil trial. In a Federal felony trial, you have the right to a jury, 5th Amendment, which you technically do in most other trials, but in this case those rules are enforced. Here in Nevada, I know you can get a misdemeanor conviction without the right to a trial by jury (constitution notwithstanding). I forget what our civil rules are - but my point is a criminal case is harder for the prosecution.
Luckily that law has so many holes (exemptions, defects, what have you) in it and and so few teeth that the only way to get nabbed is if you sell health data on CD-Rs on Ebay or the local street corner or put it on BitTorrent or some other P2P network.;)
You are not secure. You can get nabbed for trademark infringement.
Let's say Linux gets acquired (bad example because of the number of copyright holders, but I'll use it because it is familiar).
Let's say you've been making a distribution of Linux.
They can't take away the license to the code, but the GPL, etc doesn't give you a trademark license, so you are now infringing unless you rename everything in your product from Linux to something else.
And I have heard of a linux company telling people they can't use their trademark recently.
Things within walking distance, non-car centered urban development, decent public transit (*).
People are more likely to exercise if they can accomplish something else at the same time; one of these things is transportation - it was what walking was originally for.:)
* By this I mean RAIL, not busses. I will and have (*) walked to a rail station, but sure as hell won't to a bus!
* When in San Jose. I got exercise walking to the station, got to see lots of places, including Mountain View, etc. Nice, nice system they had there when I went (Sept/Oct 2001), and that was before the east of I-880 extensions were built. San Jose is pedestrian friendly in general - but it is extremely expensive to live there and you have to deal with general California wackiness.
Keep in mind the signs of a CRT radiation overdose.
One of them is flaming someone for reverse engineering a source control product, when your OS is itself a clone of another and uses something he reverse engineered in order to interoperate with fileservers from yet another OS. Not that anything in the news lately would be remotely like that.
P.S. Very few things are all toxic or all good.
Too much water is toxic. A little bit of cyanide can be used to fight cancer.
The dose, the time and the place usually determines good vs bad.
There are some exceptions, dioxin is only bad, but most poisons are useful and many many poisons save more lives than they take - when they are used as drugs.
It's possible. The longer you live, the more likely you'll survive till:
1. The Rapture 2. We find a way to stop/reverse aging 3. The aliens find a way to stop/reverse aging. 4. We find a way to travel back in time, duplicate our bodies, and implant our souls in the new body. 5. see #4, but change souls to neural pathways, quantuum states, and data. 6, see #4, but the aliens invent it, not us. 7. see #5, but the aliens invent it, not us 8. God decides death is now deprecated/obsolete. 9. The Grim Reaper takes himself out. 10. Entropy reverses or stops, possibly due to dark matter/anti-matter/quasi-matter/doesn't matter/the universe compressing instead of expanding/aliens/God/Cmdr Taco. 11. The bugs in the universe responsible for death and other bad things are fixed. 12. God ports the universe from Windows to Linux. 13. The Grim Reaper revokes the license for death because Andrew Tridgell reverse engineered it.
I also recognize that gay men have a higher average income than the general population
Considering proportionally more of them live in major urban centers with high cost of living and high wages, that is not surprising and does NOT prove that discrimination doesn't exist. San Francisco proves my point almost on its own, extremely high gay population, and extremely high wages and cost of living. Try adjusting wages by the local cost of living and see what you get.
Exactly. He didn't do something immoral, like cloning the IBM PC via reverse engineering.
We should have never had the PC revolution, because that resulted from the availability of PC clones.
We should have to pay over $1000 for a system with only 200 megs of disk and 8 megs of RAM. We should eat from the poison tree of reverse engineering.
(end of sarcasm)
Seriously, reverse engineering is legit. It is responsible for a lot of progress. It used to be legally protected, until insane laws (DMCA) and insane judges (Southern District of New York, Federal court system, etc) got involved.
Legal fees of that magnitude are nothing for Adobe, and probably more painful for Nikon (they have to pay lawyers too). Heck, perhaps Adobe could bleed dry Nikon or hurt them and then buy them.
Nikon is big, but I bet Adobe is bigger.
I speculated as to what I believe the real reason is. If they win a case against Nikon, they still lose, since now the DMCA is a less effective cudgel to hit competitors, reverse engineers and open sourcers over the head with.
It is ironic that Adobe is now being hurt by the same DMCA they so loved when they had Sklyarov arrested in Las Vegas at a convention because he reverse engineered their e-book format.
Adobe can't fight Nikon, if they lose, they lose, and if they win, they still lose, since there will be a precedent against use of the DMCA in "protecting" a file format and it will come to bite them in the posterior when they want to initiate a DMCA lawsuit of their own down the way.
I feel bad for the consumer, but as for Adobe, it serves them right!
Some places felons lose the right to vote forever.
Florida is one. So is Nevada (there was an effort to make exceptions to this, but I don't know the current status)
Here is a nice list by state (it might be a bit out of date but things like this don't change too often - I do think Utah now takes away voting while in prison)
Slashdot Mirror
you are expected to learn how to program in the first trimester
Gosh, I didn't program until after I was born, and here we have people programming in the first trimester. How, do they hook an acoustic modem to the ultrasound or something? :)
Perhaps I had a computer shipped to me, and the heat sink loosened in transit.
Intel would shut off, AMD would burn, unless the overheat was building up slow enough for it to catch it before it burned.
The AMD thermal shutdown stuff is slow. It can cope with a fan failure - but a heatsink falling off, or even insufficient goop, on a system doing 100% intense CPU (e.g. rendering) means a slowed down or crashed Intel until you fix the problem, or a burned up AMD processor and often motherboard.
Subversion has always been better than CVS!
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia!
People actually buy AMD?
I'd stick with Intel, at least they shut down (instead of BURN DOWN) when they get too hot.
Remember the Tom's Hardware Guide demonstration of heat sink failures?
I don't trust AMD in the cooling department.
In some states that wouldn't even be illegal.
That is why sensible states (like Nevada) have a tier system base on risk.
Our system is that low risk offender's info is shared with the authorities only, medium risk is shared with youth orgs, schools, etc (places where children are, basically) and high risk is shared with the community.
http://www.klaaskids.org/st-nev.htm
He didn't create that sequence.
:)
He just possessed it and had a "license" to it.
If anyone should hold the copyright it should be God and his parents.
The RIAA would be happy to see them go to Federal prison for hard time most people couldn't get through unscathed (a filesharer would probably get turned out in under a week by other inmates). They'd be happy if the penalty was execution.
They likely prefer civil because of the lower standard of evidence (preponderance of the evidence versus guilt beyond a reasonable doubt) and there are less protection for the defendent in a civil trial. In a Federal felony trial, you have the right to a jury, 5th Amendment, which you technically do in most other trials, but in this case those rules are enforced. Here in Nevada, I know you can get a misdemeanor conviction without the right to a trial by jury (constitution notwithstanding). I forget what our civil rules are - but my point is a criminal case is harder for the prosecution.
I actually detest Walmart and all it stands for
So you like high prices, low selection and very few stores to go to, all of which are closed for most of the day?
:)HAVE FUN - HAVE YOU FILED YOUR CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP PAPERS?
Are you talking about the country that bans people talking about current legal cases. Like Homolka and the more recent one?
Face it, no country is perfect.
Luckily that law has so many holes (exemptions, defects, what have you) in it and and so few teeth that the only way to get nabbed is if you sell health data on CD-Rs on Ebay or the local street corner or put it on BitTorrent or some other P2P network. ;)
GNU/HURD has been invented?!?
When did this happen?
I thought it was still vaporware.
Maybe the could use the money to package up software newer than 10 years old.
No s/he doesn't!
GPL only gives one rights to do things that would otherwise be copyright infringement.
How can one infringe one's own copyright?!
Even with EULAs the author wouldn't be bound.
How can one break a contract with oneself?
The author can't sue themself!
You are not secure. You can get nabbed for trademark infringement.
Let's say Linux gets acquired (bad example because of the number of copyright holders, but I'll use it because it is familiar).
Let's say you've been making a distribution of Linux.
They can't take away the license to the code, but the GPL, etc doesn't give you a trademark license, so you are now infringing unless you rename everything in your product from Linux to something else.
And I have heard of a linux company telling people they can't use their trademark recently.
Cities need to be more pedestrian friendly.
:)
Things within walking distance, non-car centered urban development, decent public transit (*).
People are more likely to exercise if they can accomplish something else at the same time; one of these things is transportation - it was what walking was originally for.
* By this I mean RAIL, not busses. I will and have (*) walked to a rail station, but sure as hell won't to a bus!
* When in San Jose. I got exercise walking to the station, got to see lots of places, including Mountain View, etc. Nice, nice system they had there when I went (Sept/Oct 2001), and that was before the east of I-880 extensions were built. San Jose is pedestrian friendly in general - but it is extremely expensive to live there and you have to deal with general California wackiness.
Some people claim radiation is good for you!
i s_radiation_good_for_you.htm
Look up "hormesis".
Or see this:
http://www.mccall-id.com/pages/discover/hormesis_
Keep in mind the signs of a CRT radiation overdose.
One of them is flaming someone for reverse engineering a source control product, when your OS is itself a clone of another and uses something he reverse engineered in order to interoperate with fileservers from yet another OS. Not that anything in the news lately would be remotely like that.
P.S. Very few things are all toxic or all good.
Too much water is toxic. A little bit of cyanide can be used to fight cancer.
The dose, the time and the place usually determines good vs bad.
There are some exceptions, dioxin is only bad, but most poisons are useful and many many poisons save more lives than they take - when they are used as drugs.
It's possible. The longer you live, the more likely you'll survive till:
:)
1. The Rapture
2. We find a way to stop/reverse aging
3. The aliens find a way to stop/reverse aging.
4. We find a way to travel back in time, duplicate our bodies, and implant our souls in the new body.
5. see #4, but change souls to neural pathways, quantuum states, and data.
6, see #4, but the aliens invent it, not us.
7. see #5, but the aliens invent it, not us
8. God decides death is now deprecated/obsolete.
9. The Grim Reaper takes himself out.
10. Entropy reverses or stops, possibly due to dark matter/anti-matter/quasi-matter/doesn't matter/the universe compressing instead of expanding/aliens/God/Cmdr Taco.
11. The bugs in the universe responsible for death and other bad things are fixed.
12. God ports the universe from Windows to Linux.
13. The Grim Reaper revokes the license for death because Andrew Tridgell reverse engineered it.
And nothing causes more pleasure than sex.
Heroin does.
I also recognize that gay men have a higher average income than the general population
Considering proportionally more of them live in major urban centers with high cost of living and high wages, that is not surprising and does NOT prove that discrimination doesn't exist. San Francisco proves my point almost on its own, extremely high gay population, and extremely high wages and cost of living. Try adjusting wages by the local cost of living and see what you get.
Exactly. He didn't do something immoral, like cloning the IBM PC via reverse engineering.
We should have never had the PC revolution, because that resulted from the availability of PC clones.
We should have to pay over $1000 for a system with only 200 megs of disk and 8 megs of RAM. We should eat from the poison tree of reverse engineering.
(end of sarcasm)
Seriously, reverse engineering is legit. It is responsible for a lot of progress. It used to be legally protected, until insane laws (DMCA) and insane judges (Southern District of New York, Federal court system, etc) got involved.
What's going on with Open Source people?
First Linus accusing Andrew Tridgell of destroying BitKeeper and now this.
Legal fees of that magnitude are nothing for Adobe, and probably more painful for Nikon (they have to pay lawyers too). Heck, perhaps Adobe could bleed dry Nikon or hurt them and then buy them.
Nikon is big, but I bet Adobe is bigger.
I speculated as to what I believe the real reason is. If they win a case against Nikon, they still lose, since now the DMCA is a less effective cudgel to hit competitors, reverse engineers and open sourcers over the head with.
It is ironic that Adobe is now being hurt by the same DMCA they so loved when they had Sklyarov arrested in Las Vegas at a convention because he reverse engineered their e-book format.
Adobe can't fight Nikon, if they lose, they lose, and if they win, they still lose, since there will be a precedent against use of the DMCA in "protecting" a file format and it will come to bite them in the posterior when they want to initiate a DMCA lawsuit of their own down the way.
I feel bad for the consumer, but as for Adobe, it serves them right!
Some places felons lose the right to vote forever.
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Florida is one.
So is Nevada (there was an effort to make exceptions to this, but I don't know the current status)
Here is a nice list by state (it might be a bit out of date but things like this don't change too often - I do think Utah now takes away voting while in prison)
http://www.hrw.org/reports98/vote/usvot98o.htm
The whole report:
http://www.hrw.org/reports98/vote/
And a useful Google search "felony disenfranchisement":
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=felony+disen