/* I had a couple of drinks at lunch time and wrote this procedure. It shouldn't work, but it does, I don't know how, but it does. I have tried to rewrite it but I can't seem to produce a better one. All hail lager. */
"... there is far from any consensus that this warming is a result of human activity."
There ceratinly may be no consensus, but shouldn't we just err on the side of caution?
We can
a) We carry on as we are, saying there is no problem Result 1) There wasn't a problem, it was all scare mongering. We are all a little richer than we were before. Result 2) Droughts, millions dead, rising sea levels.
b) We start to tighten our belts, we don't have the same amount of consumption. Result 1) There wasn't a problem. We can all change to act as we were before we tightened out belts. Result 2) There was a problem, but due to our foresigthtedness we have saved the planet for future generations, we will forever be known as the "thinking generations".
I have serious distrust for IBM. Even if they make a decent hard drive, their desktop machines are total crap. I use one at work with Win95, it crashes about 5-10 times per day. Just stops working, I have used them at other companies and had the same problem. I will never buy anything from IBM!
I have serious distrust for Dell. Even if they make a decent server, their desktop machines are total crap. I use one at work with Win95, it crashes about 5-10 times per day. Just stops working, I have used them at other companies and had the same problem. I will never buy anything from DELL!
My god, if it was built for 95 it is probably over 3 years old - if it is brand spanking new call thier engineers out and they will replace/fix whatever is broken, at least hardware wise.
Or why not get your IT dept to reinstall. That usually helps.
I have seen another version of this report ...
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Ring-Tone Royalties
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Where it more or less says the same thing, *but* it also tell you that the people they want to go for are the people who charge for the ring tones.
Say you pay 40p for a ring tone, the people supplying it make 40p because text messages (at the moment) don't cost a thing.
So whay shouldn't the copyright owner get any of that money?
The company I used to work for gave all the project managers cars.
Every so often the would put a list of cars 'for sale' on the company noticeboards. These were generally when cars were old and they wanted to replace them.
Anyway one of the project managers saw his car on the noticeboard and told everyone he was getting a new car.
He went into the finance division to ask about it and the reply was "Havn't they told you? Your being sacked"
They didn't actually do this on purpose, as we hadn't been told to lock his usernames yet. Just an administrative error, but still pretty disgusting.
That not quite true. The Monarch has to sign all Bills and Acts of Parliment into law, and could infact refuse to sign any Bill. The Monarch could also dissolve parliment and impose either martial law or another govement.
There have been a few documents uncovered that at certain times when labour were in power (and things were not going right for the UK) certain political parties, with the support from the security services and foreign goverments were going to try it.
You knwo what they are doing? The govement will accept the proposals, there will be a big outcry. The lords throw it out.
1 year later the govement will come up with a very similar proprosal, although not *quite* as harsh and say "Well compared with what we tried to pass last year, this is really moderate"
Which is much the same as we got with the RIP bill.
Since the region coding of audiovisual works on
DVDs serves legitimate purposes as an access control,\15\ and since
this coding encourages the distribution and availability of digital
audiovisual works, on balance, the benefit to the public exceeds the de
minimis harm alleged at this time.
There you go. Having to buy a different DVD player to play foreign films is for your benefit!
Similarly, in all of the comments and testimony on this issue, no
explanation has been offered of the technological necessity for
circumventing the access controls associated with DVDs in order to
circumvent the copy controls. If the copy control aspects of CSS may be
circumvented without circumventing its access controls, this is clearly
not a violation of Section 1201(a)(1)(A).
Look at that! Amazing.......Good luck in doing it though.
In certain circumstances, it is permissible to decompile object code, provided the object is to create another program which is compatible with the one decompiled, but which does not replace it.
And
If your purpose is to make, say, an add-in or a plug-in, you are permitted to decompile and reverse engineer a computer program, by virtue of the European Union's Software Directive, which is enacted in UK law as Section 50B of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
And the relevant section(s)
50B.--(1) It is not an infringement of copyright for a lawful user of a copy of a computer program expressed in a low level language-
(a) to convert it into a version expressed in a higher level language, or
(b) incidentally in the course of so converting the program, to copy it, (that is, to "decompile" it), provided that the conditions in subsection (2) are met.
(2) The conditions are that-
(a) it is necessary to decompile the program to obtain the information necessary to create an independent program which can be operated with the program decompiled or with another program ("the permitted objective"); and
(b) the information so obtained is not used for any purpose other than the permitted objective.
So what they are doing may not be legal under UK law if they are decompiling and reverse engineering with access to the server Binary/code.
Have a look here for the the copyright act
http://www.rgcj.co.uk/patlaw/index1.htm
Well it looks like us Olde Worlde types can't stick our noses up at those New World software Patents anymore (Big Business wins Again) :
Current Patent Issues Within Europe
And much of that global technology runs on software. The US patent system has attracted a lot of bad press over the patenting of software. Europe looks set to tread the same path doesn't it?
The principle of patenting software which meets certain conditions is now accepted in Europe. However, it is not clear that Europe has to imitate precisely the US approach. We need to talk about it, and we have a running dialogue about this with both the US and Japan.
Taken from an Interview with Alison Brimelow, Chief Executive, UK Patent Office
The first webpage I ever wrote was designed using LYNX, I thought it was easy to navigate and actually looked quite good....this was before tables and frames though.
When I mangaged to get access to a graphical browser the only thing that changed for me was I put GIFS for buttons and line breaks
5000 characters can get you quite a lot of text, who needs GIFS and JPEGS, as long as what you design is clear, neat and does the job.
Slashdot Mirror
/* I had a couple of drinks at lunch time and wrote this procedure. It shouldn't work, but it does, I don't know how, but it does. I have tried to rewrite it but I can't seem to produce a better one. All hail lager. */
Useful for me at least, as I couldn't access the original.
There ceratinly may be no consensus, but shouldn't we just err on the side of caution?
We can
a) We carry on as we are, saying there is no problem
Result 1) There wasn't a problem, it was all scare mongering. We are all a little richer than we were before.
Result 2) Droughts, millions dead, rising sea levels.
b) We start to tighten our belts, we don't have the same amount of consumption.
Result 1) There wasn't a problem. We can all change to act as we were before we tightened out belts.
Result 2) There was a problem, but due to our foresigthtedness we have saved the planet for future generations, we will forever be known as the "thinking generations".
We respectfully ask that you change your name as it is confusingly similar to our trademark of "Marks and Spencers".
May we also remind you that using the "Mark"s and "Spencer"s trademark in meta tags can also be construed as infringement.
Thank You
Marks and Spencers.
Well, it could happen?
We know Germany doesn't like them.
I have serious distrust for Dell. Even if they make a decent server, their desktop machines are total crap. I use one at work with Win95, it crashes about 5-10 times per day. Just stops working, I have used them at other companies and had the same problem. I will never buy anything from DELL!
My god, if it was built for 95 it is probably over 3 years old - if it is brand spanking new call thier engineers out and they will replace/fix whatever is broken, at least hardware wise.
Or why not get your IT dept to reinstall. That usually helps.
Say you pay 40p for a ring tone, the people supplying it make 40p because text messages (at the moment) don't cost a thing.
So whay shouldn't the copyright owner get any of that money?
Did you have to use the tags because you were not sure?
Basically the banks web site was going to have an online ATM that printed money, so that really lazy people didn't have to go to the hole in the wall.
Money coming out of your printer .... I wonder how many people would have tried it - I know I would have :-)
... that so many people had to post what date this is. Would have been nice to see who would have fallen for it.
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
Although we have a closed network, so some security issues are hmmm, ignored, its a damn useful bit of kit.
The company I used to work for gave all the project managers cars.
Every so often the would put a list of cars 'for sale' on the company noticeboards. These were generally when cars were old and they wanted to replace them.
Anyway one of the project managers saw his car on the noticeboard and told everyone he was getting a new car.
He went into the finance division to ask about it and the reply was "Havn't they told you? Your being sacked"
They didn't actually do this on purpose, as we hadn't been told to lock his usernames yet. Just an administrative error, but still pretty disgusting.
Needless to say, he was not happy at all.
That not quite true. The Monarch has to sign all Bills and Acts of Parliment into law, and could infact refuse to sign any Bill. The Monarch could also dissolve parliment and impose either martial law or another govement.
There have been a few documents uncovered that at certain times when labour were in power (and things were not going right for the UK) certain political parties, with the support from the security services and foreign goverments were going to try it.
You knwo what they are doing? The govement will accept the proposals, there will be a big outcry. The lords throw it out.
1 year later the govement will come up with a very similar proprosal, although not *quite* as harsh and say "Well compared with what we tried to pass last year, this is really moderate"
Which is much the same as we got with the RIP bill.
There you go. Having to buy a different DVD player to play foreign films is for your benefit!
Look at that! Amazing.......Good luck in doing it though.
Somthing to do with engineering at the time.
Are you sure. I thought
Copyright - Automatically in effect, never goes away, lasts for Life+70 years. Strong legal Protection. Restricts copying, lending etc.
Patent - Bought, for industrial processes. Lasts 25 Years. Strong legal protection. Doesn't disappear in that time
Trademark - Has to be registered. Strong Legal protection. Has to be protected else right is lost.
Trade Secret - No legal protection, once its out its out.
So what exactly are they defending? Copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret?
In certain circumstances, it is permissible to decompile object code, provided the object is to create another program which is compatible with the one decompiled, but which does not replace it.
And
If your purpose is to make, say, an add-in or a plug-in, you are permitted to decompile and reverse engineer a computer program, by virtue of the European Union's Software Directive, which is enacted in UK law as Section 50B of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
And the relevant section(s)
50B.--(1) It is not an infringement of copyright for a lawful user of a copy of a computer program expressed in a low level language-
(a) to convert it into a version expressed in a higher level language, or
(b) incidentally in the course of so converting the program, to copy it, (that is, to "decompile" it), provided that the conditions in subsection (2) are met.
(2) The conditions are that-
(a) it is necessary to decompile the program to obtain the information necessary to create an independent program which can be operated with the program decompiled or with another program ("the permitted objective"); and
(b) the information so obtained is not used for any purpose other than the permitted objective.
So what they are doing may not be legal under UK law if they are decompiling and reverse engineering with access to the server Binary/code.
Have a look here for the the copyright act
http://www.rgcj.co.uk/patlaw/index1.htm
Current Patent Issues Within Europe And much of that global technology runs on software. The US patent system has attracted a lot of bad press over the patenting of software. Europe looks set to tread the same path doesn't it?
The principle of patenting software which meets certain conditions is now accepted in Europe. However, it is not clear that Europe has to imitate precisely the US approach. We need to talk about it, and we have a running dialogue about this with both the US and Japan.
Taken from an Interview with Alison Brimelow, Chief Executive, UK Patent Office
http://www.derwent.com/news/guest/brimelow1.html
How many of these companies with the CPO are 'US' only and do not have a presence in the EU?
Is there a conversion table somewhere? Or a dictionary of common "WeirdNumberReplacingLetters" words?
The first webpage I ever wrote was designed using LYNX, I thought it was easy to navigate and actually looked quite good....this was before tables and frames though.
When I mangaged to get access to a graphical browser the only thing that changed for me was I put GIFS for buttons and line breaks
5000 characters can get you quite a lot of text, who needs GIFS and JPEGS, as long as what you design is clear, neat and does the job.
Haven't Borland just released thier C++ Compiler as open source?