You know, they said the same thing when vast oil reserves were discovered. Economics tells us that if the supply of an item increases, then the price drops which leads to higher demand until a new supply-demand equilibrium is reached. With a new, cheap source of energy, usage will go through the roof.
"Virtually Inexaustable", right. Never underestimate the wastefulness of people.
The Felton suit failed because the RIAA and the Justice Department ran away from a defendant who was clearly falling under the researcher exemption.
Now we have a publisher of academic papers ignoring the same exemption and asking authors to censor themselves. If that isn't strong evidence of the chilling effects of the DCMA, I don't know what is.
Maybe it's because I just woke up, maybe it's cause I missed something in the article, but it seems a simple thing for him to say, "Oh, we didn't include the source due to x y z."
He did. They didn't include the source becuase they haven't released the product to the public.
The GPL distinguishes between modifications published (for which source is required) and modifications for internal use (for which source is not rewuired). Testing is usually an internal use.
Beta testing is a grey area, is it a public distribution or is it internal? But it seems to me a resonable interpretation.
Use it anyway. When your friends discover they cannot access your site, they have a good reason to complain to their ISP, or add openDNS to their own computer.
I can just imagine the conversation.
friend: Dude, I can't get your site it says something about Unresolved Host Name.
you: Get your ISP to use OpenNIC!
Scenario 1: friend: Yeah, right.
Scenario 2: friend (to ISP): Hey I want to visit my friend's site, www.goat.geek , but he says you guys need to use OpenNIC.
When did you EVER hear of a US federal judge ever ruling that he didn't have jurisdiction?
Last month? A US Federal judge ruled he had no jurisdiction over the Taliban and Al Queda prisoners held at the US Naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba.
That said, it is prudent for a defendant to raise every conceivable objection prior to trial. This is common and they are usually dismissed, but they do provide opportunities for appeal. Courts of Appeal (and even the Supreme Court) are more likely to listen to these arguments than a DIstrict Court.
First, we need to find an extra-solar system in which Earth-sized planets exist. It's now believed that these are fairly few and far between. The reason is that a vast majority of the gas giant systems we've discovered so far have their gas giants in either really close orbits to their stars, or are highly eliptical with passes close to their stars. In these situations, Earth-like planets would likely be tossed into their stars, or more likely, tossed into open space, by the gravitational effect of the giants.
Oh, bullshit.
The methods we have used until now to find extra-solar planets are extremely biased to find (a) large planets, (b) very close to the star and (c) in highly elliptical orbits. To make conclusions about the distribution of Earth-like planets from biased samples is foolhardy.
It's as if you decided to count species by sitting in one place in the woods looking through a pair of binoculars. Sure, you would see all of the large mammals and birds that happened by, but you'd miss the vast majority of species by seeing hardly any of the incects (maybe a few fireflies if you were savvy enough to recognize them as animals) and none of the water dwelling animals. You conclusions about the distribution of species would be worthless because you saw only the easiest animals to spot.
There is a lot of so called renormalizations in quantum-gravity (and other quantum theories) which is basically waving away infinities...
Sorry to burst your bubble, but renormalization has been used in all quantum mechanics since the 50s. You can't do many meaningful calculations in QM without it.
So, without having looked at how this may have been applied with respect to licenses, my guess would be that a minor could declare a EULA that has been agreed to as "void". But what does that get you? Using the software without a license would likely constitute copyright infringement, and being a minor doesn't help you there. No EULA means no license, so use of the software may be off limits.
I strongly disagree. The First Sale doctrine gives you all the rights that you need to install and use software. You do not need a EULA to do so even though the software industry would like you to think so.
There have been several cases recently which held that, in the absence of a validly executed EULA, the law which governs the sale of a copy of software allows all of the rights which come with first sale. Arguably, those rights include the ability to use the software in the manner it was intended to be used.
I want plugins that will display content that the basic browser does not. The browser should pass unrecognized content to the appropriate display engine and provide it a wondow to draw into and the plugin should display the content in the window.
WHY CAN THE PLUGIN ALTER BASIC BROWSER FUNCTION?
This has got to be a huge security hole just waiting to be exploited.
Do our emmissions make an interesting coincidence? Yes it's interesting. Is it a direct cause-and-effect? No. Why not? Because there's no substantial evidence that we have significantly altered our planet's biosphere enough to change the temperature on a global scale without any help from the sun or the lower layers of the earth (mantle) heating up pockets thoughout the oceans.
The evidence is right there. You refuse to look at or consider it.
The vast majority of scientists working in this area agree that human activities have altered the climate already. Period. Even Bush's advisory panel could not escape that conclusion.
It is a well established legal principle that ambiguities in a contract of adhesion (a contract where one party dictates the terms and the other party must accept or reject the terms in total) are to be interpreted in favor of the non-drafting party.
The unless concerns what licenses the "Device" has. Since the term "Device" is used both before and after the nor, it is unclear whether the sentance is to be parsed (A) nor (B unless C) or ((A) nor (B)) unless C. I would argue that the second construction is the correct on. If they did not want the unless to apply to A, they could have written to as two different sentances.
But everyone seems to be missing the important problem with the license. The real problem with the license is that certain MS products get a free ride and get priviledges that competing products do not.
Before you may cross the bridge you must answer these questions three.
Q: Where are you from? A: Johns Hopkins University.
Q: What is your professtion? A: We are astronomers.
Q: What color is the Universe? A:It's green... no, it's beige AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaiiiiiiieeeeeeeeee!
Re:Explanation of Asteroid Belt
on
Lots of Ice On Mars
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
you can find out how this validates the theory that Mars was once the satellite of the planet that formed the asteroid belt when it broke up for unknown reasons.
The big problems with such a theory are that the asteroids are not made of material which has undergone differentiation. When a large planet forms, the heat generted by brining all of the material together melts it. It then undergoes a process of differentiation with heavier metals, like iron, forming a core and lighter materials, like those in the Earth's crust, rising to the surface. From spectroscopic analysis, it seems that the asteroids are completely undifferentiated.
So, a seemingly attractive theory such as the demise of a planet (and what would generate enough energy to blow it up?) fails to have much of a basis when you bring some real science to bear.
If you want to maximize tax income, you should let MS be a monopoly and charge monopolist rent.
But MS's predatory pricing reduces taxes received as well as their FIT tricks. Those amounts that are in stock options are also not taxable to the employees until exercised.
If I sell doors and a burglar breaks down the door and robs someone's home, who is legally liable? The door manufacturer? Or the criminal?
That depends on whether your door had a defect that substancially contributed to the crime. If it failed to satisfy fitness for the purporse for which it was sold, you could have some liability.
What's the about MS granting the world a non-exclusive license to implement their Kerberos protocol? We need an *exclusive* license. We don't want the trilobites on Europa to be implementing a protocol that has security implementations.
What ever happened to the Prime Directive, dammit!
Without meaning to open a whole theological can of worms, the issue of state- rather than Rome-appointed priests raises fundamental questions regarding apostolic succession, which calls into question the validity of the consecration of the Eucharist in the state-run churches.
China learned about state-run Churches from the West. From the time of Constantine up to the Reformation, local monarchs would generally name the key bishops in their territories who were generally rubber-stamped by Rome. Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury and architect of the Reformation in England was appointed by Henry VIII and that appointment was approved by the Pope. The Pope has never had a role in the appointment of Eastern Orthodox bishops while monarchs often did.
If you call into question the Apostolic Succession of state-appointed bishops, you call into question the Apostolic Succession in the West.
Sure, it's crystal clear most of the time, but when the signal does dip, you don't just get a little snow like in the old days, the whole screen turns into an 8x8 bitmap and takes a second or two to rebuild the image from subsequent differential frames.
I *love* it when that happens, which isn't that often in my case. I rewind the TiVo and watch the semi-abstract art that forms when the image rebuilds. It sure is better than some of the stuff they show.
You get the opportunity to profit. The government gets a revenue stream, and items become public domain after a reasonable time.
Problems?
Under current Copyright Law, you don't need to register a copyright to hold it.
A short story or a poem pays the same rate as a major motion picture. There's a strong *dis*incentive to produce smaller works such as articles, pamphlets, short stories and poems.
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You know, they said the same thing when vast oil reserves were discovered. Economics tells us that if the supply of an item increases, then the price drops which leads to higher demand until a new supply-demand equilibrium is reached. With a new, cheap source of energy, usage will go through the roof.
"Virtually Inexaustable", right. Never underestimate the wastefulness of people.
That's a definate sign of intelligence. Just not a highly developed one. ;^)
The Felton suit failed because the RIAA and the Justice Department ran away from a defendant who was clearly falling under the researcher exemption.
Now we have a publisher of academic papers ignoring the same exemption and asking authors to censor themselves. If that isn't strong evidence of the chilling effects of the DCMA, I don't know what is.
Maybe it's because I just woke up, maybe it's cause I missed something in the article, but it seems a simple thing for him to say, "Oh, we didn't include the source due to x y z."
He did. They didn't include the source becuase they haven't released the product to the public.
The GPL distinguishes between modifications published (for which source is required) and modifications for internal use (for which source is not rewuired). Testing is usually an internal use.
Beta testing is a grey area, is it a public distribution or is it internal? But it seems to me a resonable interpretation.
what would Evil RMS look like?
Since RMS is his own worst enemy, then his anti-version is himself.
Use it anyway. When your friends discover they cannot access your site, they have a good reason to complain to their ISP, or add openDNS to their own computer.
I can just imagine the conversation.
friend: Dude, I can't get your site it says something about Unresolved Host Name.
you: Get your ISP to use OpenNIC!
Scenario 1:
friend: Yeah, right.
Scenario 2:
friend (to ISP): Hey I want to visit my friend's site, www.goat.geek , but he says you guys need to use OpenNIC.
ISP: Yeah, right.
friend: Dude, no go. AOL won't change nothing.
you: You can set your machine to use OpenNIC
friend: Yeah, right.
You can't communicate the same sense of irrelevance on TV that you can in a book.
Ever seen Catch-22?
When did you EVER hear of a US federal judge ever ruling that he didn't have jurisdiction?
Last month? A US Federal judge ruled he had no jurisdiction over the Taliban and Al Queda prisoners held at the US Naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba.
That said, it is prudent for a defendant to raise every conceivable objection prior to trial. This is common and they are usually dismissed, but they do provide opportunities for appeal. Courts of Appeal (and even the Supreme Court) are more likely to listen to these arguments than a DIstrict Court.
First, we need to find an extra-solar system in which Earth-sized planets exist. It's now believed that these are fairly few and far between. The reason is that a vast majority of the gas giant systems we've discovered so far have their gas giants in either really close orbits to their stars, or are highly eliptical with passes close to their stars. In these situations, Earth-like planets would likely be tossed into their stars, or more likely, tossed into open space, by the gravitational effect of the giants.
Oh, bullshit.
The methods we have used until now to find extra-solar planets are extremely biased to find (a) large planets, (b) very close to the star and (c) in highly elliptical orbits. To make conclusions about the distribution of Earth-like planets from biased samples is foolhardy.
It's as if you decided to count species by sitting in one place in the woods looking through a pair of binoculars. Sure, you would see all of the large mammals and birds that happened by, but you'd miss the vast majority of species by seeing hardly any of the incects (maybe a few fireflies if you were savvy enough to recognize them as animals) and none of the water dwelling animals. You conclusions about the distribution of species would be worthless because you saw only the easiest animals to spot.
There is a lot of so called renormalizations in quantum-gravity (and other quantum theories) which is basically waving away infinities...
Sorry to burst your bubble, but renormalization has been used in all quantum mechanics since the 50s. You can't do many meaningful calculations in QM without it.
So, without having looked at how this may have been applied with respect to licenses, my guess would be that a minor could declare a EULA that has been agreed to as "void". But what does that get you? Using the software without a license would likely constitute copyright infringement, and being a minor doesn't help you there. No EULA means no license, so use of the software may be off limits.
I strongly disagree. The First Sale doctrine gives you all the rights that you need to install and use software. You do not need a EULA to do so even though the software industry would like you to think so.
There have been several cases recently which held that, in the absence of a validly executed EULA, the law which governs the sale of a copy of software allows all of the rights which come with first sale. Arguably, those rights include the ability to use the software in the manner it was intended to be used.
I want plugins that will display content that the basic browser does not. The browser should pass unrecognized content to the appropriate display engine and provide it a wondow to draw into and the plugin should display the content in the window.
WHY CAN THE PLUGIN ALTER BASIC BROWSER FUNCTION?
This has got to be a huge security hole just waiting to be exploited.
Do our emmissions make an interesting coincidence? Yes it's interesting. Is it a direct cause-and-effect? No. Why not? Because there's no substantial evidence that we have significantly altered our planet's biosphere enough to change the temperature on a global scale without any help from the sun or the lower layers of the earth (mantle) heating up pockets thoughout the oceans.
The evidence is right there. You refuse to look at or consider it.
The vast majority of scientists working in this area agree that human activities have altered the climate already. Period. Even Bush's advisory panel could not escape that conclusion.
It is a well established legal principle that ambiguities in a contract of adhesion (a contract where one party dictates the terms and the other party must accept or reject the terms in total) are to be interpreted in favor of the non-drafting party.
The unless concerns what licenses the "Device" has. Since the term "Device" is used both before and after the nor, it is unclear whether the sentance is to be parsed (A) nor (B unless C) or ((A) nor (B)) unless C. I would argue that the second construction is the correct on. If they did not want the unless to apply to A, they could have written to as two different sentances.
What part of "unless" don't you understand?
But everyone seems to be missing the important problem with the license. The real problem with the license is that certain MS products get a free ride and get priviledges that competing products do not.
I think your should order the tape you linked to. The first question is "What is your name?".
Q: Is that an Afican or European Sun?
A: I don't know that. AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaiiiiiiieeeeeeeeee!
Before you may cross the bridge you must answer these questions three.
Q: Where are you from?
A: Johns Hopkins University.
Q: What is your professtion?
A: We are astronomers.
Q: What color is the Universe?
A:It's green... no, it's beige AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaiiiiiiieeeeeeeeee!
you can find out how this validates the theory that Mars was once the satellite of the planet that formed the asteroid belt when it broke up for unknown reasons.
The big problems with such a theory are that the asteroids are not made of material which has undergone differentiation. When a large planet forms, the heat generted by brining all of the material together melts it. It then undergoes a process of differentiation with heavier metals, like iron, forming a core and lighter materials, like those in the Earth's crust, rising to the surface. From spectroscopic analysis, it seems that the asteroids are completely undifferentiated.
So, a seemingly attractive theory such as the demise of a planet (and what would generate enough energy to blow it up?) fails to have much of a basis when you bring some real science to bear.
If you want to maximize tax income, you should let MS be a monopoly and charge monopolist rent.
But MS's predatory pricing reduces taxes received as well as their FIT tricks. Those amounts that are in stock options are also not taxable to the employees until exercised.
If I sell doors and a burglar breaks down the door and robs someone's home, who is legally liable? The door manufacturer? Or the criminal?
That depends on whether your door had a defect that substancially contributed to the crime. If it failed to satisfy fitness for the purporse for which it was sold, you could have some liability.
What's the about MS granting the world a non-exclusive license to implement their Kerberos protocol? We need an *exclusive* license. We don't want the trilobites on Europa to be implementing a protocol that has security implementations.
What ever happened to the Prime Directive, dammit!
Without meaning to open a whole theological can of worms, the issue of state- rather than Rome-appointed priests raises fundamental questions regarding apostolic succession, which calls into question the validity of the consecration of the Eucharist in the state-run churches.
China learned about state-run Churches from the
West. From the time of Constantine up to the Reformation, local monarchs would generally name
the key bishops in their territories who were
generally rubber-stamped by Rome. Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury and architect of the Reformation in England was appointed by
Henry VIII and that appointment was approved by
the Pope. The Pope has never had a role in the
appointment of Eastern Orthodox bishops while
monarchs often did.
If you call into question the Apostolic
Succession of state-appointed bishops, you call
into question the Apostolic Succession in the
West.
Sure, it's crystal clear most of the time, but when the signal does dip, you don't just get a little snow like in the old days, the whole screen turns into an 8x8 bitmap and takes a second or two to rebuild the image from subsequent differential frames.
I *love* it when that happens, which isn't that often in my case. I rewind the TiVo and watch the semi-abstract art that forms when the image rebuilds. It sure is better than some of the stuff they show.
You get the opportunity to profit. The government gets a revenue stream, and items become public domain after a reasonable time.
Problems?
Under current Copyright Law, you don't need to register a copyright to hold it.
A short story or a poem pays the same rate as a major motion picture. There's a strong *dis*incentive to produce smaller works such as articles, pamphlets, short stories and poems.