A friend of mine dumping her boyfriend in a particularly umpleasant fashion, bought a substantial amount of frozen prawns and sewed them into the curtains, the mattress, the underside of the carpet and similar places.
"
If you've published your genetic sequence before that patent was filed for, then yes, you have prior art. Care to provide a citation to your publication?
"
Define publish,
Is writing it on a piece of paper publishing?
Is putting it on a webpage publishing even though it can only be read with the aid of an expensive electronic device.?
Is having it as a DNA sequence publishing even though it can only be read with an expensive sequencing device?
Why is the third not publishing if the first two are?
[paraphrase - If I use my company account to send scam mail why is my company liable for it?]
You company is liable because you sending email to other people within the company might be construed as company business and therefore their legal responsibility. If my ISP can send me bills only by email, it can change it's terms and conditions by email then it can certainly be held responsible for the email it sends. I can't refuse to pay the bill just because it was emailed to me instead of posted.
"
The DVD zoning situation is an example of consumer power! The fact is that Region 1 DVDs are usually a far better proposition for European buyers -- they come out earlier, they're cheaper, and they generally have more extra features. The situation is gradually getting better, but for the moment region-locked players don't sell. Most manufacturers seem to get around it by putting in a backdoor, then leaking said backdoor to the net. Needless to say the DVD consortium are none too happy, but screw 'em! A number of resellers also sell chipped DVD players.
"
I've also come across a couple of shops who sell DVD players with statements like
"
If you buy this DVD player from us and 'enhance' it with the service of [company] at [address] then we will not invalidate your warranty
"
I'm increasingly reaching the point of view that the purpose of region coding is to prevent the Americans using non-American discs since all of the other regions already have easy access to region free players and are made aware of region coding at point of purchase.
Re:Europe is old, corrupt == gangs and their turf.
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EMP Artillery Shells
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You see... WE are really the mature nation in the world. It is you, who have yet to find a system that works. European nations don't want to give up their gang turf and are drunk on their own penny-ante power trips. Look at the debacle over the FAILING Euro to see the all the squabbling chiefs in action. Waaaa! We're not giving up our money! That's why you're still a pile of tiny separatate nations and monarchies. And you're telling us to grow up and mature? Sire? Lord? Or whatever the hell title separates the l33t from the squalor.
"
Obviously the Euros should take lessons from the longer established Yanks.
Lesson 1 :
Great ways to decide on your next president.
"
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister
on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had
peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no
pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,'
thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'
"
I have the gutenberg text, I have the glassbook text. Was that a copyright infringement or not.
[although this question seems absurd for an out of copyright text]
"
Can I run the Glassbook Reader and a debugger at the same time?
Our security implementation does not allow debugging of any program while the Glassbook Reader is running. However, as long as the Glassbook Reader is not running, debugging is not a problem.
"
Let's hope people don't start distributing documentation in Glassbook format then.
"
So, and I'm drawing some conclusions here, Napster should have been shut down because they provide a service that enables distribution in methods that the rightful copyright holder has not agreed to?
Censorware blocking of nmap's site is legit because it (conceivably) could be put to evil uses. At least, that's what I think you're suggesting here.
"
I think it's more like.
Spam Sellers provide a service which costs me [an ISP] money to deal with and annoys my customers. Therefore I choose not to deal with them on behalf of myself and my customers.
Napster provides a service which costs me [a record company] money. Therefore I will try to make it illegal.
I have no problems with record companies not allowing Napster traffic over their internal networks. If they wish to start a Napster free ISP I have no problem with that either. If they make Napster illegal I can't change to a Napster friendly ISP. I can change to a spam friendly ISP.
"
Look up "censor" in a dictionary. Look up its origin -- show me where it means "an act committed by a government". I, as a consumer, by buying a connection from someone who uses the blacklist, am authorizing them to act as censor. Yes, it's voluntary, but it's still censorship.
"
From www.dictionary.com
Censor :
2. One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.
[source Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary]
I suspect the ISP is a acting as censor *if and only if* they forbid the publication of material and have a statutory power to do so. In this case they aren't a censor since the publishers can move to a different ISP - if the material was censored this would not be the case - i.e. the publication has not been forbidden.
This is discrimination, not censorship.
Censorship
"
It is illegal for you to publish the material because we don't like it. If you try to publish this material we will lock you up.
"
Discrimination
"
We will not publish you material becuase you are a member of a set of people with whom we have chosen not to associate with. You may ask someone else to publish your material.
"
[snip - stuff about using point and click instead of command line]
So you tell your roommate: "Get rid of all the old fruit and all the purple fruit."
Surely you've just provided a counter example to your own argument?
to use SQL as a language since it seems most appropriate
DELETE FROM fruit WHERE how_old > 7 and color = 'purple';
To do this with a GUI would be
Select the fruit you wish to delete
Delete the selected fruits.
A more human example, the CLI is you telling your roommate to remove the old purple fruit, the GUI is you telling your roommate to sort the fruit into age order, then pointing out which ones he needs to throw out.
Which is more effcient to you?
[By the way, I think that some things are best done with a GUI, drawing programs for example, it's just you picked one of the worst examples you could to use].
Re:Christmas isn't about presents
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Gifts For Geeks
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Rather than spending days searching the net for things you want, why not spend that time thinking of how you can make other people happy? Christmas should be a time when you don't think of yourself, but instead go all out to bring happiness to other people.
"
Maybe, geeks have friends that are other geeks and they'd like to buy them some presents?
A UK Company had a similar idea selling off Bango (!) [TM] numbers to people with the intention of making URLS easier to type into mobiles.
Bango.net
They were selling them off at some stupid rates for small numbers - and for some reason they've dished out really attractive numbers to local companies - e.g. 12345 is a regional newspaper.
As part of my Masters in the UK I did a substantial piece of coding to aid telescope design. Do I own that code?
> - grad students are generally paid by the school
In my case, I pay the University to go there
> - the school's equipment is generally used by the student for the work
Mostly it was my own computer - only the final demonstration was done on their equipment since it was a requirement of the project.
> - the work is being produced for the school as a requirement for the degree
True
In my case, I bought the computers, I wrote the code, I paid fees to be there, I even paid my own heating bill and bought my own coffee. Why should the university own my code?
Personally I think that joint ownership, 50/50 with the department should be the agreement since I did use some of their expertise.
Out of wedlock pregnancies are bad because it is likely that the child will not be brought up with two loving parents
However, with a divorce rate approaching 50%, in wedlock pregnancies are bad because it is likely that the child will not be brought up with two loving parents.
.. It's common sense,...
Lots of things are common sense. It's common sense that the world is flat, it's common sense that the sun goes around the Earth.
Certainly I learnt a large amount of clever programming tricks on the ZX Spectrum by disassembling other peoples programs and figuring out what they did from the assembly.
I doubt the PS2 will come with a freeze machine and examine the machine state / twiddle the bytes in memory one by one tool even if it was understandable.
Also on the ZX spectrum they did at least tell you what all the hardware was and how it worked, they also had programming books in libraries for people to try out.
Its vital connection with the real world is based on a highly dubious (even outright absurd, according to some physicists, including Einstein) conjecture about entangled quantum states (roughly, a special kind of "mystical" non-local correlation among events) which was actually never confirmed experimentally.
According to many other physicists quantum entanglement does occur, and there is supporting experimental evidence. This evidence is disputed by some people, however the majority accept it as valid.
I note that Caroline Thompson on her page that she suspects that the experimenters have produced [possibly without realising] detectors that mimic quantum theory. A non-specialist in the field who is skeptic of the results is not the same thing as a definite disproof by a trained experimentalist. Please note that Caroline Thompson offers no experimental results, only some suggested experiments that have not been tested, which could disprove QM as it currently stands.
illegal in the hosting country?
illegal in the authors country?
illegal in the viewers country?
illegal in any country that the traffic passes through?
In the case of speeding tickets from cameras, you have the right to remain silent - i.e. not to fill in the form. Then they have to prove *beyond reasonable doubt* that you were driving.
This is especially difficult if more than one person is licensed to drive the car and more than one licensed driver is in the car at the time.
Slashdot Mirror
On the smelly stuff theme.
A friend of mine dumping her boyfriend in a particularly umpleasant fashion, bought a substantial amount of frozen prawns and sewed them into the curtains, the mattress, the underside of the carpet and similar places.
"
If you've published your genetic sequence before that patent was filed for, then yes, you have prior art. Care to provide a citation to your publication?
"
Define publish,
Is writing it on a piece of paper publishing?
Is putting it on a webpage publishing even though it can only be read with the aid of an expensive electronic device.?
Is having it as a DNA sequence publishing even though it can only be read with an expensive sequencing device?
Why is the third not publishing if the first two are?
[paraphrase - If I use my company account to send scam mail why is my company liable for it?]
You company is liable because you sending email to other people within the company might be construed as company business and therefore their legal responsibility. If my ISP can send me bills only by email, it can change it's terms and conditions by email then it can certainly be held responsible for the email it sends. I can't refuse to pay the bill just because it was emailed to me instead of posted.
"
The DVD zoning situation is an example of consumer power! The fact is that Region 1 DVDs are usually a far better proposition for European buyers -- they come out earlier, they're cheaper, and they generally have more extra features. The situation is gradually getting better, but for the moment region-locked players don't sell. Most manufacturers seem to get around it by putting in a backdoor, then leaking said backdoor to the net. Needless to say the DVD consortium are none too happy, but screw 'em! A number of resellers also sell chipped DVD players.
"
I've also come across a couple of shops who sell DVD players with statements like
"
If you buy this DVD player from us and 'enhance' it with the service of [company] at [address] then we will not invalidate your warranty
"
I'm increasingly reaching the point of view that the purpose of region coding is to prevent the Americans using non-American discs since all of the other regions already have easy access to region free players and are made aware of region coding at point of purchase.
[Moderation : -5 Flamebait]
"
You see... WE are really the mature nation in the world. It is you, who have yet to find a system that works. European nations don't want to give up their gang turf and are drunk on their own penny-ante power trips. Look at the debacle over the FAILING Euro to see the all the squabbling chiefs in action. Waaaa! We're not giving up our money! That's why you're still a pile of tiny separatate nations and monarchies. And you're telling us to grow up and mature? Sire? Lord? Or whatever the hell title separates the l33t from the squalor.
"
Obviously the Euros should take lessons from the longer established Yanks.
Lesson 1 :
Great ways to decide on your next president.
"
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister
on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had
peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no
pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,'
thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'
"
I have the gutenberg text, I have the glassbook text. Was that a copyright infringement or not.
[although this question seems absurd for an out of copyright text]
From the terms and conditions
"
Can I run the Glassbook Reader and a debugger at the same time?
Our security implementation does not allow debugging of any program while the Glassbook Reader is running. However, as long as the Glassbook Reader is not running, debugging is not a problem.
"
Let's hope people don't start distributing documentation in Glassbook format then.
Sadly it's real
Here's my desktop when I downloaded it
http://thebad.idnet.net.uk/~pete/alice.jpg
We need a good website on this to demonstrate why the DMCA is bad. Buy a CD, can't play it on a computer. Buy a kids book, can't read it to your kids.
"
So, and I'm drawing some conclusions here, Napster should have been shut down because they provide a service that enables distribution in methods that the rightful copyright holder has not agreed to?
Censorware blocking of nmap's site is legit because it (conceivably) could be put to evil uses. At least, that's what I think you're suggesting here.
"
I think it's more like.
Spam Sellers provide a service which costs me [an ISP] money to deal with and annoys my customers. Therefore I choose not to deal with them on behalf of myself and my customers.
Napster provides a service which costs me [a record company] money. Therefore I will try to make it illegal.
I have no problems with record companies not allowing Napster traffic over their internal networks. If they wish to start a Napster free ISP I have no problem with that either. If they make Napster illegal I can't change to a Napster friendly ISP. I can change to a spam friendly ISP.
Advice for Grandmothers
:Hello, is that ? None of my mail is getting through - why is this?
Me
Thenm : The internet has cut us off for sending junk mail.
Me : What are you doing about it?
Them : Nothing
Me : Right, I'd like to cancel my account please, I'll buy services off someone else.
or.
Them : We've terminated their accounts and will be reconnected soon.
Me : Thank you , please don't do it again.
"
Look up "censor" in a dictionary. Look up its origin -- show me where it means "an act committed by a government". I, as a consumer, by buying a connection from someone who uses the blacklist, am authorizing them to act as censor. Yes, it's voluntary, but it's still censorship.
"
From www.dictionary.com
Censor :
2. One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.
[source Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary]
I suspect the ISP is a acting as censor *if and only if* they forbid the publication of material and have a statutory power to do so. In this case they aren't a censor since the publishers can move to a different ISP - if the material was censored this would not be the case - i.e. the publication has not been forbidden.
This is discrimination, not censorship.
Censorship
"
It is illegal for you to publish the material because we don't like it. If you try to publish this material we will lock you up.
"
Discrimination
"
We will not publish you material becuase you are a member of a set of people with whom we have chosen not to associate with. You may ask someone else to publish your material.
"
[snip - stuff about using point and click instead of command line]
So you tell your roommate: "Get rid of all the old fruit and all the purple fruit."
Surely you've just provided a counter example to your own argument?
to use SQL as a language since it seems most appropriate
DELETE FROM fruit WHERE how_old > 7 and color = 'purple';
To do this with a GUI would be
Select the fruit you wish to delete
Delete the selected fruits.
A more human example, the CLI is you telling your roommate to remove the old purple fruit, the GUI is you telling your roommate to sort the fruit into age order, then pointing out which ones he needs to throw out.
Which is more effcient to you?
[By the way, I think that some things are best done with a GUI, drawing programs for example, it's just you picked one of the worst examples you could to use].
"
Rather than spending days searching the net for things you want, why not spend that time thinking of how you can make other people happy? Christmas should be a time when you don't think of yourself, but instead go all out to bring happiness to other people.
"
Maybe, geeks have friends that are other geeks and they'd like to buy them some presents?
So, following your excellent grasp of probability theory.
There is a 1 in 6 chance of rolling a 6 on a dice, but when you roll a 6 it becomes 100%.
Therefore, every subsequent roll of the dice will also roll a 6 won't it since it has a 100% chance.
Or have I been quoting some silly ratios?
A UK Company had a similar idea selling off Bango (!) [TM] numbers to people with the intention of making URLS easier to type into mobiles.
Bango.net
They were selling them off at some stupid rates for small numbers - and for some reason they've dished out really attractive numbers to local companies - e.g. 12345 is a regional newspaper.
"
If they couldn't take the time to go back over their ballot and verify that they voted correctly, then they get what they deserve.
"
I thought that part of the problem was that they verified their ballot, discovered wrong and were not allowed a new ballot paper.
Not to mention
Linux 2.4 to go Gold....
Surely it should be
"Linux Kernel announced pretty done and stable as geeks start writing the next one."
As part of my Masters in the UK I did a substantial piece of coding to aid telescope design. Do I own that code?
> - grad students are generally paid by the school
In my case, I pay the University to go there
> - the school's equipment is generally used by the student for the work
Mostly it was my own computer - only the final demonstration was done on their equipment since it was a requirement of the project.
> - the work is being produced for the school as a requirement for the degree
True
In my case, I bought the computers, I wrote the code, I paid fees to be there, I even paid my own heating bill and bought my own coffee. Why should the university own my code?
Personally I think that joint ownership, 50/50 with the department should be the agreement since I did use some of their expertise.
However, with a divorce rate approaching 50%, in wedlock pregnancies are bad because it is likely that the child will not be brought up with two loving parents.
Lots of things are common sense. It's common sense that the world is flat, it's common sense that the sun goes around the Earth.
Certainly I learnt a large amount of clever programming tricks on the ZX Spectrum by disassembling other peoples programs and figuring out what they did from the assembly.
I doubt the PS2 will come with a freeze machine and examine the machine state / twiddle the bytes in memory one by one tool even if it was understandable.
Also on the ZX spectrum they did at least tell you what all the hardware was and how it worked, they also had programming books in libraries for people to try out.
According to many other physicists quantum entanglement does occur, and there is supporting experimental evidence. This evidence is disputed by some people, however the majority accept it as valid.
I note that Caroline Thompson on her page that she suspects that the experimenters have produced [possibly without realising] detectors that mimic quantum theory. A non-specialist in the field who is skeptic of the results is not the same thing as a definite disproof by a trained experimentalist. Please note that Caroline Thompson offers no experimental results, only some suggested experiments that have not been tested, which could disprove QM as it currently stands.
back of the envelope calculation shows about 1 MeV.
:)
We're close enough to classical physics here (10% lightspeed) that for our purposes it won't make much difference.
E = 1/2 m v^2
~ 0.5 * 1.6 * 10^-27 * (3 * 10 ^ 7) ^2
~ 0.5 * 1.6 10^-12 Joules
~ 0.5 * 10^7 eV
~ 5 MeV
Still no good for you though
[bites the troll]
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/
Links, a text mode browser with a decent tables + frames rendering engine.
define illegal
illegal in the hosting country?
illegal in the authors country?
illegal in the viewers country?
illegal in any country that the traffic passes through?
In the case of speeding tickets from cameras, you have the right to remain silent - i.e. not to fill in the form. Then they have to prove *beyond reasonable doubt* that you were driving.
This is especially difficult if more than one person is licensed to drive the car and more than one licensed driver is in the car at the time.