That was the intention behind the original copyright laws: death of copyright-holder + 20 years.
And then Disney came along. Walt died a long time ago, and as per the old laws, Mickey, Goofy and Minnie would have been in the public domain in 1986 (20 years after Walt died). But the Disney company has gotten the laws extended time and again, so that they are death + 70years now.
ensuring that the public gets the right to fashion new works from old..
As Newton said, "If I have seen further, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants" (or something to that effect).
Without "borrowing" or creative re-interpretation, most creative efforts will wither and die. Not surprisingly, the artists understand this and agree with this; it is the media companies which are the roadblocks. To them, art is just a product that needs to be sold to the masses; it doesn't matter how it is produced, as long as noone else "steals" it (just like Nike doesn't care where the sneakers are made and who makes them).
If I sold a car to the government that didn't run at all, I'd be in jail for fraud.
Why don't they do the same for software?
These are the same feds who treat copyright infringement as "theft"; who tack on all sorts of costs to the cost associated with a breakin (where a kid just pokes around the system); and yet they turn the other cheek when these companies waste billions of dollars on badly-executed projects.
As a taxpayer, I am thoroughly pissed at this waste of my money.
Expect the Prime to pay a token couple of million dollars as a "fine" and walk laughing all the way to the bank...
I am wondering if any of these desktop search utilities upload stats to their servers. Since I don't run Windows, I can't download and try these out; but it would be interesting to go over their EULAs with a fine-toothed comb and see what can/cannot be done by these utilities.
The agent was also an adopter of mobile technology, and he did a lot of work through his T-Mobile Sidekick
The agent mentioned here, Cavicchia, was an "early adopter".
With all the money that USSS has, I'd hope they'd develop some custom encryption solutions for their Sidekicks and Blackberries, if they indeed find them useful.
Going by the lack of Linux support for other such technologies (mini-PCI wifi on laptops), I have to wonder: is Intel going to release OSS drivers for these cards? Or are Linux users doomed to play catchup, forced to use Windows DLLs (like LinuxAnt) to get the hardware working?
Seeing that Intel is involved, I'm not too sure if they'll release the drivers anytime soon. But I guess we can wait and see.
--
Clicking on this link [yahoo.com] will cost Ken Lay of Enron $0.10. Don't believe me? Try it out.:-)
Well, it is possible they changed the ID string reported by the Apache server (if Netcraft is indeed using that). I remember I used to do that on the servers I ran, just to freak the curious out:-)
--
Clicking on this link will cost Ken Lay of Enron $0.10. Don't believe me? Try it out.:-)
Whose fault is it that Microsoft decided to include the GUI, shell, Explorer, etc. into the "kernel" ? Can you have a WinXP machine without the GUI? I know I can have Linux box with Gnome/KDE/X11.
As long a Microsoft insists on throwing the kitchen sink into the "kernel", the comparison with the Linux kernel is fair.
I always wondered: with their "code morphing" technology, why didn't they turn it into a Java processor, with the ability to execute Java code natively? Yeah, I am aware of Sun's past efforts in this direction; but imagine if you will: Java apps running natively at the same time as Linux apps. Even if the processor is 3x slower than a x86, Java running natively would be comparable to Java running under VM on an x86 (please, I don't want to start a flamewar about Java's speed here).
Imagine this: Vendor sells a million players. Suddenly, (oopsie!) the key becomes "compromised". Now the customers have to buy new players, all over again!
Here's what I'd love to see: a no-name Chinese outfit makes 10MM players for, say, Sony; and then key gets "compromised" (wink wink). Suddenly, outfit gets an order for 10MM more! Yay!! Sure, the customers won't buy Sony again; but they'll probably buy some other brand, again made by one of these no-name outfits.
If they're not willing to support it, at least they should release the specs (under NDA to some select companies, if PHBs are worried about IP) to a third party (or parties) and let them do the support, troubleshooting, customer service, etc.
My guess? The decision-makers at these phone companies are old geezers from the Ma Bell days; when the phone company was a monopoly and could do whatever they pleased.
Take a look at ATT's stock price and market share; the same thing is going to happen to these vendors who rely on customer ignorance and proprietary lock-ins to turn a profit.
There is no way that a hand-held laser can track a plane flying at 300mph at 8500 feet; find the cockpit and stay there for any period of time. If someone can pull that off, make that guy a surgeon. You can barely see a plane at 8500 feet!
Have they explored onboard possibilities? Some emission coming from one of the onboard instruments?
The National Institutes of Health is already proposing mandated Open Access to all NIH-funded research
This is a very good thing. If my tax dollars are going to support the research, I hope it benefits as many people as possible (instead of just the big PHaRMA ).
I had heard that the Pharma people have a way around this. They will co-sponsor research with NIH, and when it comes time to publish, claim that all of the good stuff came from their share of the funding (and hence claim it as their IP). I don't know how true this is, but that's what I've heard.
I have been on the lookout for quality (human) Microarray data for doing predictive data mining with some exciting new techniques, but can't find too many such sets around. Looking at the revenues of Affymetrix (for instance), one would think there would be oodles of data out there; but this is not the case. Yes, I am aware of the SMD, etc.
We believe the way to integrate software, and the way to get software to work in a heterogeneous environment, is through promoting open standards
Can somebody hit Bill with a clue-by-four and ask him about
1. Samba, and why the Samba project had to reverse-engineer everything?
2. Microsoft Office, and the hoops OpenOffice.org had to jump through to reverse-engineer their document storage format?
3. NTFS, and why Linux still can't support NTFS write natively (without using a MS DLL)?
4. All the hidden system calls that Microsoft uses internally, and which came up in the anti-trust case?
I can't understand how people like this guy Bill can look themselves in the mirror every morning. Lying pathetically to make a living is no living.
India is one of the world's largest producers of generic drugs. Whereas American companies want to charge starving Africans $10000/yr for AIDS drugs, an Indian company has promised to provide the equivalent generics for $300/year.
Indian companies have also started applying for FDA approval and/or patent protection for new molecules (as drugs are known).
Stop drinking the Koolaid and start doing some reading (and not just the GTA manual;-) ).
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe there is a justification for eliminating some of these jobs, but Wall St's myopic viewpoint (job cuts => profit!!!) has always bugged me.
And then Disney came along. Walt died a long time ago, and as per the old laws, Mickey, Goofy and Minnie would have been in the public domain in 1986 (20 years after Walt died). But the Disney company has gotten the laws extended time and again, so that they are death + 70years now.
As Newton said, "If I have seen further, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants" (or something to that effect).
Without "borrowing" or creative re-interpretation, most creative efforts will wither and die. Not surprisingly, the artists understand this and agree with this; it is the media companies which are the roadblocks. To them, art is just a product that needs to be sold to the masses; it doesn't matter how it is produced, as long as noone else "steals" it (just like Nike doesn't care where the sneakers are made and who makes them).
Why don't they do the same for software?
These are the same feds who treat copyright infringement as "theft"; who tack on all sorts of costs to the cost associated with a breakin (where a kid just pokes around the system); and yet they turn the other cheek when these companies waste billions of dollars on badly-executed projects.
As a taxpayer, I am thoroughly pissed at this waste of my money.
Expect the Prime to pay a token couple of million dollars as a "fine" and walk laughing all the way to the bank...
I am wondering if any of these desktop search utilities upload stats to their servers. Since I don't run Windows, I can't download and try these out; but it would be interesting to go over their EULAs with a fine-toothed comb and see what can/cannot be done by these utilities.
The agent was also an adopter of mobile technology, and he did a lot of work through his T-Mobile Sidekick
The agent mentioned here, Cavicchia, was an "early adopter".
With all the money that USSS has, I'd hope they'd develop some custom encryption solutions for their Sidekicks and Blackberries, if they indeed find them useful.
E-Gold, maybe? I'm sure there are others offering "untraceable" cash transfers. Probably cash in an envelope works too.
Seeing that Intel is involved, I'm not too sure if they'll release the drivers anytime soon. But I guess we can wait and see.
-- :-)
Clicking on this link [yahoo.com] will cost Ken Lay of Enron $0.10. Don't believe me? Try it out.
-- :-)
Clicking on this link will cost Ken Lay of Enron $0.10. Don't believe me? Try it out.
Nope, server room. Raised floor at the bottom, racks on both sides, with holes (covered) to bring up cabling.
He is a Zimbabwean refugee claimant.
Just think about this: this guy is claims to be a refugee, and then turns around and commits a scam like this.
If I were a Canadian, I would go on a fuckin' hunger strike to have my government throw these scumbags back to whereever they came from!
Of course, expecting Canadian politickians to do anything sensible about the "refugees" is asking for the moon.
Ba-dum! Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Try the salmon, I hear it's delicious.
As long a Microsoft insists on throwing the kitchen sink into the "kernel", the comparison with the Linux kernel is fair.
I take it they meant
designed to protect from users burning "protected" DTV broadcasts
I always wondered: with their "code morphing" technology, why didn't they turn it into a Java processor, with the ability to execute Java code natively? Yeah, I am aware of Sun's past efforts in this direction; but imagine if you will: Java apps running natively at the same time as Linux apps. Even if the processor is 3x slower than a x86, Java running natively would be comparable to Java running under VM on an x86 (please, I don't want to start a flamewar about Java's speed here).
Imagine this: Vendor sells a million players. Suddenly, (oopsie!) the key becomes "compromised". Now the customers have to buy new players, all over again!
Here's what I'd love to see: a no-name Chinese outfit makes 10MM players for, say, Sony; and then key gets "compromised" (wink wink). Suddenly, outfit gets an order for 10MM more! Yay!! Sure, the customers won't buy Sony again; but they'll probably buy some other brand, again made by one of these no-name outfits.
Welcome to a brave new world.
My guess? The decision-makers at these phone companies are old geezers from the Ma Bell days; when the phone company was a monopoly and could do whatever they pleased.
Take a look at ATT's stock price and market share; the same thing is going to happen to these vendors who rely on customer ignorance and proprietary lock-ins to turn a profit.
It's a Jedi mind trick.
Have they explored onboard possibilities? Some emission coming from one of the onboard instruments?
This is a very good thing. If my tax dollars are going to support the research, I hope it benefits as many people as possible (instead of just the big PHaRMA ).
I had heard that the Pharma people have a way around this. They will co-sponsor research with NIH, and when it comes time to publish, claim that all of the good stuff came from their share of the funding (and hence claim it as their IP). I don't know how true this is, but that's what I've heard.
I have been on the lookout for quality (human) Microarray data for doing predictive data mining with some exciting new techniques, but can't find too many such sets around. Looking at the revenues of Affymetrix (for instance), one would think there would be oodles of data out there; but this is not the case. Yes, I am aware of the SMD, etc.
Can somebody hit Bill with a clue-by-four and ask him about
1. Samba, and why the Samba project had to reverse-engineer everything?
2. Microsoft Office, and the hoops OpenOffice.org had to jump through to reverse-engineer their document storage format?
3. NTFS, and why Linux still can't support NTFS write natively (without using a MS DLL)?
4. All the hidden system calls that Microsoft uses internally, and which came up in the anti-trust case?
I can't understand how people like this guy Bill can look themselves in the mirror every morning. Lying pathetically to make a living is no living.
Internetweek used to be a print paper, before the costs (and low subscription numbers) forced them to ditch the dead-tree version.
and this motley crew shall /. into oblivion...
Could it be (and I'm stretching for the terms here) that this can act like a USB "master" (or host controller) and the iPod can't?
India is one of the world's largest producers of generic drugs. Whereas American companies want to charge starving Africans $10000/yr for AIDS drugs, an Indian company has promised to provide the equivalent generics for $300/year.
Indian companies have also started applying for FDA approval and/or patent protection for new molecules (as drugs are known).
Stop drinking the Koolaid and start doing some reading (and not just the GTA manual ;-) ).