If she bought the stuff at a Salon, and resold it on eBay for a profit, then the salon must've sold it to her even cheaper.
The salon is the one violating a contract with the manufacturer, by selling the product at below the retail price demanded by the contract.
So, why dont they go after the salon? Maybe they don't feel like doing the investigative work to figure out which salon is guilty, so they go after the unknown salon's cutomer instead.
I could see some stupid hack claiming that certain stipulations of the GPL (the ones said stupid hack doesn't like, of course) are unenforceable, therefore placing a work under the GPL is equivalent to placing it in the Public Domain.
Also, what's the problem with GPLv3? If Novell is required to turn over source code under v2, can't they just continue doing so under v3?
Or if the user takes his classified laptop home and plugs it into his DSL router.
The incident is reported to be perpetrated by high level management at LANL. High level managers get to take classified laptops with them wherever they go, probably.
For your daily dose of Lab cynicism, be sure to read The LANL Blog.
The testing only involves certain standard alleles of mostly unknown function on the Y-chromosome, picked for their mix of mutation rate. By comparing the results with that of someone you suspect is related, you can get a good idea whether you are in fact related, or how closely. It's far from being enough information to identify you personally, so privacy concerns are minimal. Your first cousin might match you 67 out of 67 markers, while you 5th cousin will probably only match the 37 more slowly mutating markers.
Of course, this kind of testing can lead to the exposure of deep dark secrets regarding parentage. If that would bother you a lot, you probably shouldn't be doing genealogy.
Ancestry.com is apparently now going to compete with FTDNA, which is the most widely used and respected genealogical DNA testing company.
Anybody who has ever tried to do genealogical lookups on the Internet soon learns to hate ancestry.com -- until you give in and pay their $155 per year.
Heh. Well, there are some fringe sects that take this very position.
But most people are sensible enough to realize that the Pledge isn't to be taken so literally here. It was, after all, formulated by a Baptist minister, who would've known better that to make an idol out of a piece of cloth.
Slashdot Mirror
Star Trek already invented it.
It's called, "Sub Space Radio."
If she bought the stuff at a Salon, and resold it on eBay for a profit, then the salon must've sold it to her even cheaper.
The salon is the one violating a contract with the manufacturer, by selling the product at below the retail price demanded by the contract.
So, why dont they go after the salon?
Maybe they don't feel like doing the investigative work to figure out which salon is guilty, so they go after the unknown salon's cutomer instead.
Lazy ass lawyers.
.. I have this strange craving for fried chicken.
I could see some stupid hack claiming that certain stipulations of the GPL (the ones said stupid hack doesn't like, of course) are unenforceable, therefore placing a work under the GPL is equivalent to placing it in the Public Domain.
Also, what's the problem with GPLv3?
If Novell is required to turn over source code under v2, can't they just continue doing so under v3?
Excellent!
The criterion for awesomeness of hardware is NOT whether it can run Linux, but whether it can handle Windows without crashing.
You have enlightened me, sir.
But, does it run Li....
Oh wait.
Or if the user takes his classified laptop home and plugs it into his DSL router.
The incident is reported to be perpetrated by high level management at LANL.
High level managers get to take classified laptops with them wherever they go, probably.
For your daily dose of Lab cynicism, be sure to read The LANL Blog.
Too many democrats in congress that pander to the lefty tree hugger types.
LANL has been a punching bag for quite a while. After all, it's where those evil nasty nuclear weapons of mass destruction were invented.
NO, it means that there was nothing THAT sensitive in the laptop.
The fool just didn't fill out the appropriate paperwork.
Sigh. Another non-event being blown out of proportion for no reason other than it originates from LANL, the left's favorite whipping boy...
..and I can't imagine that it's worth my time to do so.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBRHetKH4MQ
... at YSearch.
The testing only involves certain standard alleles of mostly unknown function on the Y-chromosome, picked for their mix of mutation rate. By comparing the results with that of someone you suspect is related, you can get a good idea whether you are in fact related, or how closely. It's far from being enough information to identify you personally, so privacy concerns are minimal. Your first cousin might match you 67 out of 67 markers, while you 5th cousin will probably only match the 37 more slowly mutating markers.
Of course, this kind of testing can lead to the exposure of deep dark secrets regarding parentage. If that would bother you a lot, you probably shouldn't be doing genealogy.
Ancestry.com is apparently now going to compete with FTDNA, which is the most widely used and respected genealogical DNA testing company.
Anybody who has ever tried to do genealogical lookups on the Internet soon learns to hate ancestry.com -- until you give in and pay their $155 per year.
... that computers built around the S-100 bus are WAY better'n those toys that use the SS-50 bus!
"Tests don't prove you know anything; they only prove you know how to take tests!"
Why do you care whether they guess?
Why not just grade on a statistical curve?
Those who know the material will be at the high end of the curve.
The guessers will be weeded out.
No matter how you grade though, someone will claim that it's unfair.
Maybe just my experience, but I've never seen a multiple choice test where multiple answers were expected.
I have seen many tests that included something like:
E) answers A,C and D above are all correct.
but answer E) is the only truly correct answer.
Heh. Well, there are some fringe sects that take this very position.
But most people are sensible enough to realize that the Pledge isn't to be taken so literally here. It was, after all, formulated by a Baptist minister, who would've known better that to make an idol out of a piece of cloth.
Young Earth creationism is particularly silly.
Here is an interesting argument against it from a Christian viewpoint.
> ...nor will I take any of my [future potential] children to it.
That's because as a Slashdot participant, you don't have any potential of future children....
Silly, sure.
But dangerous?
As President Lyndon Johnson (who was from Texas, used to say, "Muh fellow 'Merkins..."
It's a joke, but most of us Merkins don't get it, because we dunno what "merkin" means...
That's right, Novell!
You buttered your bread, now lie in it.
Wise-ass is right, since it's a nonsense question.
I don't suppose God can make square circles, either.
Heh. Yeah, car alarms are useless.
Little Boy Crying Wolf.
The stupidest ones have a voice alarm: "Step Away From The Car!"
> At my place of business, it seems the biggest hurdle people have with keeping up with email is organization.
At my place of business, it seems the biggest hurdle people have with keeping up with email is organizational email.
Everytime the Big Boss (or any of his underlings) sneezes, we get an email informing us of the fact...