There is no copyright possible on game mechanics, so you can pretty much write your own completely D&D compatible game, with the rules taken straight from D&D (but rephrased, of course, because the actual phrases are copyrighted). As long as you don't advertise this with trademarked terms, you're fine, you don't need the OGL.
But anyway. Who in his right mind would want to use this complicated mess as a base for his own game, when there is a system from 1978 that is much, much more elegant, named BRP? http://basicroleplaying.org/
Oh, you mean western countries including the U.S., Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, and Poland are currently the victims of an ongoing cyberespionage campaign, launched by somebody apart from the NSA as well?
Of course, if some morons decide instead of to fix problems to try to exploit them -- and to create a market for them, the problem sure is to grow even more.
"Yes, this car may be tipping over very easily, but we might need this to assassinate some foreign dignitaries, so we don't hell the manufacturer".
Sadly, most crime statistics don't differ between "hand gun" and "rifle" or somesuch. Because that would change the statistics extremely, with "hand gun" ownership being rather low in most countries other than the US, even those which otherwise have a very high gun proliferation.
If you're counting in the "technically government owned firearms", my country (Switzerland) is probably number two, but these are mostly rifles, and most other privately held firearms also are rifles. Depending on the type of rifle, you can get them without any permit. But you usually can't get more modern than single-shot muzzle-loading hand guns without a specific license. And you need another license for carrying them.
Also, the statistics probably lack murder-by-police ("We mistook his cellphone for a gun"), and I'm pretty sure the US is very high up in that department as well..
Obviously, GCHQ has done the most damage to "computer infrastructure" since the Morris worm, and funneled data about British citizens out of the country, into the hands of possible malign foreign actors.
"hacking computers", or "placing trojans" and other such things primarily do one thing: They make evidence useless. Because you can't prove anymore that you did not plant it, that you didn't change anything and that you did not open a backdoor for a third party.
How stupid can you get? And why haven't the forensic specialists of the DOJ told them what their request really would mean?
I've got some other great ideas in the same vein: - Drop cleanliness regulations for DNA testing labs - Don't require physical evidence be sealed. And leave doors to it unlocked, so everyone can go and tamper some.
I can understand a secret service that wants to do these things, but a law enforcement agency really, really can't allow it. Much less propose it.
You're a shill, and the points you make a total distraction. And incidentally, the same as rgbatdukes, so I expect you to be some astroturfers.
It's very simple: Pumping energy into a system makes it warmer, yes, but not everywhere, and not every time, but only in the average. So counting up outliers (coldest, warmest, whatever) does mean squat.
What pumping energy into a system does in the first place is raising entropy.
And this means, you get _hotter_ AND _colder_ climate, more rainfall AND less rainfall. In short, climate gets more extreme.
The best way to see this, well, you've already experienced it, it comes with names like Katrina and Sandy...
"because no windows developers have 'this kind of hardware anymore'.
The reality is, Linux supports much more older hardware than windows does. Because drivers are vendor-produced, they don't tend to upgrade them when new versions are out (and their product isn't on sale any more). So you end up with tons of scanners, drives, printers, and what have you, which can't be made to work on newer windows versions. Which run just fine on even the newest linux versions.
Nope. Cut&Paste on Chrome/Chromium is totally broken on X11. Has been since forever, and they won't fix it. They think cleaning the paste-buffer on the mouse whenever you open a new tab is a good idea.
Well, chances actually are, that some people that know gymel also have a wider understanding of the middle ages, and thus acquired skills, or at least know how, on how the middle ages work. So they might be able to build a fire with flint and steel, or produce pottery, and so on...
reenactors and experimental archeologists might be able to cope rather well without modern technology, because they already tried it.
But I actually don't see why the party has anything to do with it, besides, the Democrats and the Republicans are both right-wing authoritarians. http://politicalcompass.org/us... So there's no difference anyway.
But nobody who needed to pay the pharma companies for said polio vaccine, because the Foundation was lobbying for more patent protection at the same time.
Saying nothing that a lot of these images are actually in the public domain, which means you can copy them however you want, and are not, and never ever, bound by any of gettys licenses.
Like this here: http://www.gettyimages.ch/deta... Whatever getty says is moot, you can copy this over wikimedia commons and tag it "public domain", because replications of two-dimensional works of art always retain the original copyright -- public domain, in this case. there is NO right getty has on this, what-so-ever. Actually, by claiming a copyright, they're committing fraud.
> You can patent a new method for ranking relevant web pages in search results.
Yes, but not according to patent law. Because it's an algorithm, and thus mathematics. All software is mathematics, mathematically provable.
The whole trouble comes from judges, lawyers and patent offices having a completely different definition of "algorithm" than science has. And you as well, obviously.
It make Unity finally usable. Nobody prevented you from doing "apt-get instal xfce4" beforehand.
Apart from being unusable for us Fcous-Follows-Mouse guys, it's kind of an "I told you so", because I never could fathom why I would need to mouse all the way to the top of the screen to find the menu of a window.. It always was user-unfriendly.
Nuclear is economically superior to nearly every other form of power when you consider both its actual costs.
Please do factor in insurance costs. Notice something? No insurance company wants (or even can) take that kind of risk. Oh, and while you're at it, please factor in the cost of waste disposal which are ALSO borne by the taxpayers in most countries.
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... which is a trademark license anyway.
There is no copyright possible on game mechanics, so you can pretty much write your own completely D&D compatible game, with the rules taken straight from D&D (but rephrased, of course, because the actual phrases are copyrighted). As long as you don't advertise this with trademarked terms, you're fine, you don't need the OGL.
But anyway. Who in his right mind would want to use this complicated mess as a base for his own game, when there is a system from 1978 that is much, much more elegant, named BRP? http://basicroleplaying.org/
Should be online. Most of the issues. Unless it was pulled. I couldn't connect, so here's the archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20...
Looks like Gale fucked it up: http://gdc.gale.com/products/t... They seem to have paywalled all the public domain material. Bastards!
NSA operations are spelt with capitals.
Oh, you mean western countries including the U.S., Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, and Poland are currently the victims of an ongoing cyberespionage campaign, launched by somebody apart from the NSA as well?
Of course, if some morons decide instead of to fix problems to try to exploit them -- and to create a market for them, the problem sure is to grow even more.
"Yes, this car may be tipping over very easily, but we might need this to assassinate some foreign dignitaries, so we don't hell the manufacturer".
Amazon wants Hachette to pay premium so it's own customers can get books from Hachette.
That is exactly what missing net-neutrality looks like.
This is what this is about: http://www.trilateral.org/down... And what it leads to: http://inequalityforall.com/
Sadly, most crime statistics don't differ between "hand gun" and "rifle" or somesuch. Because that would change the statistics extremely, with "hand gun" ownership being rather low in most countries other than the US, even those which otherwise have a very high gun proliferation.
If you're counting in the "technically government owned firearms", my country (Switzerland) is probably number two, but these are mostly rifles, and most other privately held firearms also are rifles. Depending on the type of rifle, you can get them without any permit. But you usually can't get more modern than single-shot muzzle-loading hand guns without a specific license. And you need another license for carrying them.
Also, the statistics probably lack murder-by-police ("We mistook his cellphone for a gun"), and I'm pretty sure the US is very high up in that department as well..
Obviously, GCHQ has done the most damage to "computer infrastructure" since the Morris worm, and funneled data about British citizens out of the country, into the hands of possible malign foreign actors.
The whole GCHQ should be arrested for treason.
Yes of course, this new Obama Bush, same as the old George W. Bush. (both of them far worse than the even older George H. W. Bush).
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Yes, I turned off all weak ciphers in my browser. Including most 128bit ones.
"hacking computers", or "placing trojans" and other such things primarily do one thing: They make evidence useless. Because you can't prove anymore that you did not plant it, that you didn't change anything and that you did not open a backdoor for a third party.
How stupid can you get? And why haven't the forensic specialists of the DOJ told them what their request really would mean?
I've got some other great ideas in the same vein:
- Drop cleanliness regulations for DNA testing labs
- Don't require physical evidence be sealed. And leave doors to it unlocked, so everyone can go and tamper some.
I can understand a secret service that wants to do these things, but a law enforcement agency really, really can't allow it. Much less propose it.
You're a shill, and the points you make a total distraction. And incidentally, the same as rgbatdukes, so I expect you to be some astroturfers.
It's very simple: Pumping energy into a system makes it warmer, yes, but not everywhere, and not every time, but only in the average. So counting up outliers (coldest, warmest, whatever) does mean squat.
What pumping energy into a system does in the first place is raising entropy.
And this means, you get _hotter_ AND _colder_ climate, more rainfall AND less rainfall. In short, climate gets more extreme.
The best way to see this, well, you've already experienced it, it comes with names like Katrina and Sandy...
Wrong side of history == people that do not agree with the Obama administration.
That's also a frequent definition of "racist".
Mod parent troll down.
This Obama Bush is just the same as that W. Bush. Only Obama looks and talks better.
"because no windows developers have 'this kind of hardware anymore'.
The reality is, Linux supports much more older hardware than windows does. Because drivers are vendor-produced, they don't tend to upgrade them when new versions are out (and their product isn't on sale any more). So you end up with tons of scanners, drives, printers, and what have you, which can't be made to work on newer windows versions. Which run just fine on even the newest linux versions.
Nope. Cut&Paste on Chrome/Chromium is totally broken on X11. Has been since forever, and they won't fix it. They think cleaning the paste-buffer on the mouse whenever you open a new tab is a good idea.
Well, chances actually are, that some people that know gymel also have a wider understanding of the middle ages, and thus acquired skills, or at least know how, on how the middle ages work. So they might be able to build a fire with flint and steel, or produce pottery, and so on...
reenactors and experimental archeologists might be able to cope rather well without modern technology, because they already tried it.
Conservatism isn’t http://seegras.discordia.ch/Bl...
But I actually don't see why the party has anything to do with it, besides, the Democrats and the Republicans are both right-wing authoritarians. http://politicalcompass.org/us... So there's no difference anyway.
> Could we please stop with the endless pro-drug commentary?
It's not "pro-drug". It's "anti-prohibition".
But nobody who needed to pay the pharma companies for said polio vaccine, because the Foundation was lobbying for more patent protection at the same time.
Saying nothing that a lot of these images are actually in the public domain, which means you can copy them however you want, and are not, and never ever, bound by any of gettys licenses.
Like this here:
http://www.gettyimages.ch/deta...
Whatever getty says is moot, you can copy this over wikimedia commons and tag it "public domain", because replications of two-dimensional works of art always retain the original copyright -- public domain, in this case. there is NO right getty has on this, what-so-ever. Actually, by claiming a copyright, they're committing fraud.
> You can patent a new method for ranking relevant web pages in search results.
Yes, but not according to patent law. Because it's an algorithm, and thus mathematics. All software is mathematics, mathematically provable.
The whole trouble comes from judges, lawyers and patent offices having a completely different definition of "algorithm" than science has. And you as well, obviously.
See also: http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Softw...
Sounds like the US political landscape. I especially like that the title of the thread is "Change".
It make Unity finally usable. Nobody prevented you from doing "apt-get instal xfce4" beforehand.
Apart from being unusable for us Fcous-Follows-Mouse guys, it's kind of an "I told you so", because I never could fathom why I would need to mouse all the way to the top of the screen to find the menu of a window.. It always was user-unfriendly.
They have the temerity to ask the public to combat the effects of a completely rampant patent system they created themselves?
In effect, they're telling you "please do the work the patent office should have done in the first place". Real nice.
Nuclear is economically superior to nearly every other form of power when you consider both its actual costs.
Please do factor in insurance costs. Notice something? No insurance company wants (or even can) take that kind of risk. Oh, and while you're at it, please factor in the cost of waste disposal which are ALSO borne by the taxpayers in most countries.