I believe you have misread the article. The network of telescopes was used so that many stars (12,000) could be surveyed in a reasonable amount of time. That's a social network, not an interferometer (astronmerese for "beowulf cluster") network.
The planet, however, was detected with a 4" telescope.
That leaves the software. The hard part is writing it. Distributing and running it is easy.
Yes, now some guy in his backyard who is willing to put in the time could do this.
There is already an asteroid aimed at SCO. It's very big, and it's very blue.
Spectrographic analysis reveals that the blue color results from a very high lawyer content.
If the asteroid impacts as expected a smaller red object following in its wake will compound the damage. Strangly, the red color seems to be the result of nacho flavored Doritos sedimentized out of Jolt Cola. Scientists are baffled.
No, it would only be an ex post facto law if you were prosecuted for copying while the work was still held to be in the public domain.
This doesn't stop anyone from filing a complaint against you of course, anyone can file a complaint against anyone for anything, but the fact that the work was in the public domain at the time would be what is called an "affirmative defense."
. ..seeing "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along." when I clicked on the story really was rather amusing.
Oh, and I predict that terrorists will redirect an asteroid into Detroit (well, we can dream, can't we?) on the day after tomorrow. Remember, if it comes true you heard from me first. ..unless you're with the FBI or something. In that case I never said a word.
This is not only great news for This Land is Your Land lovers, but for lovers of all of Woody's music, because the same case will apply to any other of Woody's songs that Ludlow failed to renew.
Time to do some research people.
I hate to place a fly in the ointment though, especially in public where Ludlow's lawyers might see it, but the Sonny Bono Copyright Act extended copyright retroactively, including onto those titles that had already fallen into the public domain. This has been a real pain to online publishers of public domain works, many of whom have withdrawn certain titles that were clearly in the public domain when they first posted them.
To my knowledge this portion of the act has never actually been tested in court though, and still hasn't since this issue was resolved by the withdrawl of the complaint. They are free to remake it for some decades.
In this case though we still have Woody's own grant of public rights on first publication. I wonder if that didn't influence Ludlow's action, since going to court over the issue would inevitably bring that up. They may wish to avoid a judicial ruling on that score.
I'll bet you believed the clerk at the store when he told you that it was against the law to take back underwear too.
It isn't. It's against the law to resell returned underwear not in the original package. It is simply company policy to not accept the return.
Notice that you too used the word "policy"? If there were such a law as you suggest that word would not appear on the sign. The word "law" would replace it. When the sign says "policy" that's exactly what it means.
They are perfectly free to give you a refund, they just don't want to. Same as the underwear.
Only in the case of computer/video games the store is also free to resell the title.
Why do they even need to block French browsers if they don't have a specifically French presence?
They do have a specifically French presence. This is what allowed the case to go forward in the French courts in the first place and the reason the American appeals court could rule as they did. Yahoo! is operating from inside France, thus the American courts have no jurisdiction over the ruling.
If Yahoo! entirely shut down their French offices things might well be different.
An alternative solution is to use a system where tools like spell checking and word counts are functions of the system, not the app.
In such systems added functions are as close as writting them in whatever language supported by the system as suits your fancy. Conversely any function you do not desire can simply be deleted or not installed in the first place.
Manipulating text does not have to be the purvue of selfcontained, monolithic apps. If one ditches MS Word much of the rasion d'etre for using such an app disspears in the first place. I think most people who use OpenOffice do so because it is Wordlike and familiar and that they are unaware that there is another, and often better, way of going about things.
Nine out of ten doctors recommend acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin (tm)) as the pain killer to take on a desert island if you could only have one.
Frankly I'm suprised it isn't ten out of ten. Aspirin is an anti-inflamatory. Acetomeniphin (Tylenol)isn't. Under the restrictions it's the clear choice.
I wonder what the results would be if the survey had asked what the doctors recommend for a headache while "stranded" in a pharmacy?
If you get to make up the questions you can also "make up" the answers, particularly if you can also actually make up the answers in the form of multiple choice check boxes.
Note that the questions are never published, let alone the range of allowed answers.
Actually, this isn't true. What happens is that when a private party funds "research" such as this it's a work for hire, the funding party owns the results and the researcher is bound and gagged by an NDA.
When the results don't come out as they like, which is fairly common, they simply don't publish those results.
It's pretty easy for me to prove that I can always flip a coin to land heads if each flip is taken to be an independant test and I only publish the tests that came up heads.
. . . software that is easy to use and doesn't require an IQ of 160 to configure (end user testing would also be good)
I agree that end user testing would be good, but frankly I like software targeted at users with an IQ of 160. There's a real place for software you don't have to be that bright just to get something done.
If I installed an Accusump in my car it could double the life of my very expensive car engine, but I want to start it now, not in 10 seconds, you insensitive clod.
Is there a reason that this information is being aimed specifically at teenagers?
Because teenagers are fragile creatures with delicate minds still in formation. You can't expect them to, or their parents to allow them to, read a Dummies book. They need special, age appropriate, handling, or it will take herds of social workers decades to help them deal with the psychological damage of dealing with adult themes in adult language.
In phrasing your question you obviously weren't thinking of the children.
Except, last I checked, bolt cutters were not illegal.
They are a burglary tool and you may be convicted of possession. I personally viewed a case where a man was convicted of possession of a screwdriver, with this interesting twist, the screwdriver was actually one of the things he admited he stole. It wasn't one of the tools of the crime, it was part of the loot.
Yes, this is a bastardization of the law (and all possession laws are a bastardization of American legal philosophy in the first place), but it is the way the law is successfully applied. Successful application is called "precedent."
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I believe you have misread the article. The network of telescopes was used so that many stars (12,000) could be surveyed in a reasonable amount of time. That's a social network, not an interferometer (astronmerese for "beowulf cluster") network.
The planet, however, was detected with a 4" telescope.
That leaves the software. The hard part is writing it. Distributing and running it is easy.
Yes, now some guy in his backyard who is willing to put in the time could do this.
KFG
Thank you both for the correction.
KFG
Oh come on man! Duct tape and Saran Wrap are so last year's technology. You need to upgrade to one of these things now:
Terrorist proof bed
KFG
There is already an asteroid aimed at SCO. It's very big, and it's very blue.
Spectrographic analysis reveals that the blue color results from a very high lawyer content.
If the asteroid impacts as expected a smaller red object following in its wake will compound the damage. Strangly, the red color seems to be the result of nacho flavored Doritos sedimentized out of Jolt Cola. Scientists are baffled.
KFG
No, it would only be an ex post facto law if you were prosecuted for copying while the work was still held to be in the public domain.
This doesn't stop anyone from filing a complaint against you of course, anyone can file a complaint against anyone for anything, but the fact that the work was in the public domain at the time would be what is called an "affirmative defense."
KFG
. . .seeing "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along." when I clicked on the story really was rather amusing.
.unless you're with the FBI or something. In that case I never said a word.
Oh, and I predict that terrorists will redirect an asteroid into Detroit (well, we can dream, can't we?) on the day after tomorrow. Remember, if it comes true you heard from me first. .
KFG
So, now that its established that these people don't have the copyright to the song after all. . .
No, it has not been established, which is the essential problem. The complaint was withdrawn, not ruled on.
This leaves Ludlow free to send its lawyers back to the drawing board and file future complaints against other parties.
Or just scare people into "compliance" by continuing to send cease and desist letters or demands for royalties.
KFG
This is not only great news for This Land is Your Land lovers, but for lovers of all of Woody's music, because the same case will apply to any other of Woody's songs that Ludlow failed to renew.
Time to do some research people.
I hate to place a fly in the ointment though, especially in public where Ludlow's lawyers might see it, but the Sonny Bono Copyright Act extended copyright retroactively, including onto those titles that had already fallen into the public domain. This has been a real pain to online publishers of public domain works, many of whom have withdrawn certain titles that were clearly in the public domain when they first posted them.
To my knowledge this portion of the act has never actually been tested in court though, and still hasn't since this issue was resolved by the withdrawl of the complaint. They are free to remake it for some decades.
In this case though we still have Woody's own grant of public rights on first publication. I wonder if that didn't influence Ludlow's action, since going to court over the issue would inevitably bring that up. They may wish to avoid a judicial ruling on that score.
KFG
Ah! Somehow I failed to see the first post. Must be a Pavlovian thing or something.
In that case I agree with you entirely.
KFG
I'll bet you believed the clerk at the store when he told you that it was against the law to take back underwear too.
It isn't. It's against the law to resell returned underwear not in the original package. It is simply company policy to not accept the return.
Notice that you too used the word "policy"? If there were such a law as you suggest that word would not appear on the sign. The word "law" would replace it. When the sign says "policy" that's exactly what it means.
They are perfectly free to give you a refund, they just don't want to. Same as the underwear.
Only in the case of computer/video games the store is also free to resell the title.
KFG
Why do they even need to block French browsers if they don't have a specifically French presence?
They do have a specifically French presence. This is what allowed the case to go forward in the French courts in the first place and the reason the American appeals court could rule as they did. Yahoo! is operating from inside France, thus the American courts have no jurisdiction over the ruling.
If Yahoo! entirely shut down their French offices things might well be different.
KFG
An alternative solution is to use a system where tools like spell checking and word counts are functions of the system, not the app.
In such systems added functions are as close as writting them in whatever language supported by the system as suits your fancy. Conversely any function you do not desire can simply be deleted or not installed in the first place.
Manipulating text does not have to be the purvue of selfcontained, monolithic apps. If one ditches MS Word much of the rasion d'etre for using such an app disspears in the first place. I think most people who use OpenOffice do so because it is Wordlike and familiar and that they are unaware that there is another, and often better, way of going about things.
KFG
Joyeux anniversaire from the Mandrake users.
KFG
Shut up and just submit the patch.
KFG
Don't forget to email her a jpeg of flowers. It would be a bitch to have to play CounterStrike Source alone for the next week.
KFG
Nine out of ten doctors recommend acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin (tm)) as the pain killer to take on a desert island if you could only have one.
Frankly I'm suprised it isn't ten out of ten. Aspirin is an anti-inflamatory. Acetomeniphin (Tylenol)isn't. Under the restrictions it's the clear choice.
I wonder what the results would be if the survey had asked what the doctors recommend for a headache while "stranded" in a pharmacy?
If you get to make up the questions you can also "make up" the answers, particularly if you can also actually make up the answers in the form of multiple choice check boxes.
Note that the questions are never published, let alone the range of allowed answers.
KFG
. . .always come out in favour for Microsoft.
Actually, this isn't true. What happens is that when a private party funds "research" such as this it's a work for hire, the funding party owns the results and the researcher is bound and gagged by an NDA.
When the results don't come out as they like, which is fairly common, they simply don't publish those results.
It's pretty easy for me to prove that I can always flip a coin to land heads if each flip is taken to be an independant test and I only publish the tests that came up heads.
KFG
. . . software that is easy to use and doesn't require an IQ of 160 to configure (end user testing would also be good)
I agree that end user testing would be good, but frankly I like software targeted at users with an IQ of 160. There's a real place for software you don't have to be that bright just to get something done.
KFG
If OpenOffice Writer opens .doc files do .doc files become GPL?
KFG
If I installed an Accusump in my car it could double the life of my very expensive car engine, but I want to start it now, not in 10 seconds, you insensitive clod.
KFG
"jesus saves"
But Moses migrates.
KFG
Is there a reason that this information is being aimed specifically at teenagers?
Because teenagers are fragile creatures with delicate minds still in formation. You can't expect them to, or their parents to allow them to, read a Dummies book. They need special, age appropriate, handling, or it will take herds of social workers decades to help them deal with the psychological damage of dealing with adult themes in adult language.
In phrasing your question you obviously weren't thinking of the children.
KFG
Except, last I checked, bolt cutters were not illegal.
They are a burglary tool and you may be convicted of possession. I personally viewed a case where a man was convicted of possession of a screwdriver, with this interesting twist, the screwdriver was actually one of the things he admited he stole. It wasn't one of the tools of the crime, it was part of the loot.
Yes, this is a bastardization of the law (and all possession laws are a bastardization of American legal philosophy in the first place), but it is the way the law is successfully applied. Successful application is called "precedent."
KFG
what happens if you put damp sock encased warm beer in the freezer ?
You have to either drink it out of a glass, or a sock.
KFG
The GPL is a contract.
No, the GPL is a license.
KFG