If it's a job I would use just to pay the bills, I e-mail it to you
As an employer, it's useful to me to know what signs to look for on a resume that indicate an applicant would not be a good fit for my company. Thanks for the help!
PS we will not be calling to arrange an interview.
And it makes an infinite amount more sense to use Metric than the US system.
Don't kid yourself. A liter is as arbitrary a reference point as a pint; a meter as arbitrary as a yard.
If we don't, trade will continue to suffer
The United States suffers from poor trade with other nations? I never would have guessed. Really, I had no idea. I just kind of assumed we were an economic superpower, perhaps I was wrong.
Y'know, sometimes the general lack of knowledge about and understanding of priciples of copyright law on Slashdot makes me irritable and upset. This is one of them.
Take every bit of personal information you can think of, stick it into a database, and file for a copyright on it. Poof, you've just made every company out there trying to gather data on you guilty of a copyright violation for which you can sue them
Simply replicating a piece of information does not constitute a copyright violation. You have to demonstrate that the copy was DIRECTLY DERIVED FROM your original. Did the company access your database server to get their copy of your information? If not, your allegations of copyright violation won't get very far.
Here's a sentence I just made up: "I do not like them." This same sentence happens to appear in Dr. Seuss' book, "Green Eggs and Ham", but does that mean I've violated Seuss' copyright by typing that sentence? No more than a company that gets your name and address from somewhere is guilty of violating the copyright on your imaginary database.
If, however, you took a bunch of mere facts and arranged them in an innovative and creative way you very well might be able to get copyright protection for the compilation.
So in terms that Slashdot can relate to, would you say this means that the data stored in an RDBMS's tuples would not be copyrightable, but any SQL queries against those bits of data and reports generated therefrom might be? Would that be accurate?
I have a family member who works as a purchaser for a media distributor -- she brings home DVD movie screeners given to her by sales reps on a regular basis.
Granted, these screeners are typically created after a movie's theatrical run but before the home video market run, but it's a little misleading to say "DVD screeners" when all you mean is the ones distributed for Academy award consideration.
IHNRTA, but from what I've gathered from the comments here, it sounds like the Democratic party "left the door unlocked", so to speak. So in that sense, it's not as egregious a theft as Watergate.
this obvious pattern of criminal behavior at the top of the Republican Party is intolerable.
Two incidents thirty-two years apart is an "obvious pattern"?
Anyway, shouldn't those of us who believe in open governments believe that neither political party should be hiding secret documents from each other and from the public in the first place? I can't see how someone could claim that the Democratic Party should have any that the GOP shouldn't be privy to, while at the same time demanding that Dick Cheney reveal the contents of his energy summits with Enron executives.
Mutual full disclosure isn't just a good idea for court cases.
Word of advice to anyone thinking about giving the Uberman sleep schedule a chance: check what actual experts think about it first. I recommend sleep researcher Dr. James Maas's book "Power Sleep".
Never take lifestyle advice from some guy who wrote an Everything2 article at face value. Do your research. Dr. Maas has.
Don't confuse the content with the medium. Major media companies fine with you getting news content over the internet -- especially if you get it from them.
And quite frankly, any time you say something that generalizes "corporations, governments, and megamedia" into one big homogenous group, it starts to sound like a Conspiracy Theory to me.
if he really wants to subvert corporate controls, GPL is the way of the warrior.
If you really want to convince people that licensing the code they write under the GPL is in everybody's best interests, a touch less of the "what you've done is nice but it's still not good enough" attitude would be helpful.
So basically, even if you did it once, you'd have to destroy your printer and delete any storage medium used to make it.
Um... no.
any [...] thing used in the making of the illustration
that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or deleted or erased
Unless you have some sort of weirdass printer that retains a bitmap of every page it prints forever, you don't have to destroy your printer. Just clear the currency image from its memory.
Is this software/hardware reporting back to someone that you're trying to duplicate currency? I doubt it, so it's likely not spyware.
It's well-known that many commercial photocopiers increment a counter each time it detects an attempt to make a copy of currency. Once the machine reaches a certain threshold, the machine shuts down and a field tech has to be called to restart it.
So while it may not be going out and pinging the spooks each time you do something questionable, there certainly is a record of what you've tried to do.
They were the first large portal... and we have all heard the rumors that google also is going that route.
I've heard the rumors, but I don't believe them for a second. Didn't the idea of the monolithic Web Portal site die out around 1999?
Google's core mission, as far as I can tell, is to provide highly meaningful search results in a variety of specific contexts -- News, Shopping, Usenet, etc. That alone does not a portal make.
Likewise, google is establishing a mail service...
From what I've heard, it's going to be an advertising service for emailers, and not the kind of "sign up to get your @google.com disposable webmail address" tools that Yahoo! and Hotmail offer.
They give you a receipt for anything they take, and they can't use and item as evidence in court without first proving that they gave you a receipt for that item.
He states himself that he later discovered that some things were seized that were not listed on the receipts. If that happens, your stuff may not be used against you in court, but it IS gone forever.
Makes sense to me.
So it's a legitimate concern of yours that if your property ever gets searched, you might end up 'disappeared' by Big Evil Government Agents? Have a little faith in the system...
If I were him, I would have dug out the yellow pages in full view of the agents, called up a law firm, and arranged for an attorney to show up at the house RIGHT THEN AND THERE.
Does Mike Rowe has more moral rights to use his own name than Microsoft has rights to dictate the use of common word 'soft'?
That's not the issue.
Microsoft would have no legal grounds to go after Squaresoft, or Oklasoft (Oklahoma's fastest growing software company), or PootRootbeerSoft -- there is nil chance of confusion between those and MS's name.
Microsoft =/MIC ro s@ft/ MikeRowSoft =/mic RO s@ft/
Pretty similar, no?
It's not just the -soft suffix that gives MS grounds to pursue action, it's the fact that ALL THREE syllables are pronounced identically.
IANAL but this sounds like a slam dunk for Mr Rowe.
Quoth the article: "He registered the domain in August because he thought it would be cool to have a site that sounded like the famous company".
IAANAL but it seems like his intent to piggyback on the reputation of the Redmond-based company couldn't be more clear. Being 17 doesn't excuse him from playing by the rules.
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Now i can finally get a computer to sing and play the music while i do the beats.
Wow, I didn't know Tony Verderosa posted to Slashdot!
If it's a job I would use just to pay the bills, I e-mail it to you
As an employer, it's useful to me to know what signs to look for on a resume that indicate an applicant would not be a good fit for my company. Thanks for the help!
PS we will not be calling to arrange an interview.
And it makes an infinite amount more sense to use Metric than the US system.
Don't kid yourself. A liter is as arbitrary a reference point as a pint; a meter as arbitrary as a yard.
If we don't, trade will continue to suffer
The United States suffers from poor trade with other nations? I never would have guessed. Really, I had no idea. I just kind of assumed we were an economic superpower, perhaps I was wrong.
Y'know, sometimes the general lack of knowledge about and understanding of priciples of copyright law on Slashdot makes me irritable and upset. This is one of them.
Take every bit of personal information you can think of, stick it into a database, and file for a copyright on it. Poof, you've just made every company out there trying to gather data on you guilty of a copyright violation for which you can sue them
Simply replicating a piece of information does not constitute a copyright violation. You have to demonstrate that the copy was DIRECTLY DERIVED FROM your original. Did the company access your database server to get their copy of your information? If not, your allegations of copyright violation won't get very far.
Here's a sentence I just made up: "I do not like them." This same sentence happens to appear in Dr. Seuss' book, "Green Eggs and Ham", but does that mean I've violated Seuss' copyright by typing that sentence? No more than a company that gets your name and address from somewhere is guilty of violating the copyright on your imaginary database.
If, however, you took a bunch of mere facts and arranged them in an innovative and creative way you very well might be able to get copyright protection for the compilation.
So in terms that Slashdot can relate to, would you say this means that the data stored in an RDBMS's tuples would not be copyrightable, but any SQL queries against those bits of data and reports generated therefrom might be? Would that be accurate?
You say that the RIAA (and by that, I assume you mean the record companies that are RIAA members, though you don't specify) produce only crap.
What do you listen to, then?
Your opinion is that in the present, there is no creative work in America.
So... what do you listen to?
I have a family member who works as a purchaser for a media distributor -- she brings home DVD movie screeners given to her by sales reps on a regular basis.
Granted, these screeners are typically created after a movie's theatrical run but before the home video market run, but it's a little misleading to say "DVD screeners" when all you mean is the ones distributed for Academy award consideration.
With this paste I can safely overclock my Athlon 2000+ to an Athlon 2600+
If the chip could safely run at the higher clock speed, AMD would have sold it as an Athlon 2600+.
The only safe clock speed is the one the manufacturer rates it at. (Or slower, 'fcourse.)
Got Proof? A breakdown of which ones voted for it?
That's easy enough to find out yourself. I'm not going to do your homework for you.
IHNRTA, but from what I've gathered from the comments here, it sounds like the Democratic party "left the door unlocked", so to speak. So in that sense, it's not as egregious a theft as Watergate.
this obvious pattern of criminal behavior at the top of the Republican Party is intolerable.
Two incidents thirty-two years apart is an "obvious pattern"?
Anyway, shouldn't those of us who believe in open governments believe that neither political party should be hiding secret documents from each other and from the public in the first place? I can't see how someone could claim that the Democratic Party should have any that the GOP shouldn't be privy to, while at the same time demanding that Dick Cheney reveal the contents of his energy summits with Enron executives.
Mutual full disclosure isn't just a good idea for court cases.
the Democrats were against the war
Most of them voted in support of it.
Word of advice to anyone thinking about giving the Uberman sleep schedule a chance: check what actual experts think about it first. I recommend sleep researcher Dr. James Maas's book "Power Sleep".
Never take lifestyle advice from some guy who wrote an Everything2 article at face value. Do your research. Dr. Maas has.
Dues in a frat house go to the 60"HDTV, game systems, parties (It's all about the Super Bowl), and the file server "as needed".
No shit? So much for the notions that fraternities promote public service and academic excellence...
Megamedia like CNN, MSNBC, etc. don't want you to get information from the Internet.
Then why are CNN.com and MSNBC.com such full-featured sites?
Don't confuse the content with the medium. Major media companies fine with you getting news content over the internet -- especially if you get it from them.
And quite frankly, any time you say something that generalizes "corporations, governments, and megamedia" into one big homogenous group, it starts to sound like a Conspiracy Theory to me.
if he really wants to subvert corporate controls, GPL is the way of the warrior.
If you really want to convince people that licensing the code they write under the GPL is in everybody's best interests, a touch less of the "what you've done is nice but it's still not good enough" attitude would be helpful.
Um... no.
Unless you have some sort of weirdass printer that retains a bitmap of every page it prints forever, you don't have to destroy your printer. Just clear the currency image from its memory.
Say it with me everyone: THE DMCA WAS SIGNED IN 1998 BY YOUR BOY BILL CLINTON.
Now YOU escuche y repita:
JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE DISLIKES GEORGE W. BUSH DOES NOT MEAN THAT BILL CLINTON IS "THEIR BOY".
We don't take gun companies to court do we?
Um, yes we do in fact.
Automobile makers don't get fined when a drunk driver kills someone do they?
Auto manufacturers get sued all the time when people get killed in motor vehicle accidents.
I live in America, where anyone can be sued for any reason!
Is this software/hardware reporting back to someone that you're trying to duplicate currency? I doubt it, so it's likely not spyware.
It's well-known that many commercial photocopiers increment a counter each time it detects an attempt to make a copy of currency. Once the machine reaches a certain threshold, the machine shuts down and a field tech has to be called to restart it.
So while it may not be going out and pinging the spooks each time you do something questionable, there certainly is a record of what you've tried to do.
They were the first large portal... and we have all heard the rumors that google also is going that route.
I've heard the rumors, but I don't believe them for a second. Didn't the idea of the monolithic Web Portal site die out around 1999?
Google's core mission, as far as I can tell, is to provide highly meaningful search results in a variety of specific contexts -- News, Shopping, Usenet, etc. That alone does not a portal make.
Likewise, google is establishing a mail service...
From what I've heard, it's going to be an advertising service for emailers, and not the kind of "sign up to get your @google.com disposable webmail address" tools that Yahoo! and Hotmail offer.
They give you a receipt for anything they take, and they can't use and item as evidence in court without first proving that they gave you a receipt for that item.
He states himself that he later discovered that some things were seized that were not listed on the receipts. If that happens, your stuff may not be used against you in court, but it IS gone forever.
Makes sense to me.
So it's a legitimate concern of yours that if your property ever gets searched, you might end up 'disappeared' by Big Evil Government Agents? Have a little faith in the system...
If I were him, I would have dug out the yellow pages in full view of the agents, called up a law firm, and arranged for an attorney to show up at the house RIGHT THEN AND THERE.
When did a weblog become fact?
A weblog can be as credible as a newspaper report, magazine article, or television broadcast.
Interpret that as you will.
Does Mike Rowe has more moral rights to use his own name than Microsoft has rights to dictate the use of common word 'soft'?
/MIC ro s@ft/ /mic RO s@ft/
That's not the issue.
Microsoft would have no legal grounds to go after Squaresoft, or Oklasoft (Oklahoma's fastest growing software company), or PootRootbeerSoft -- there is nil chance of confusion between those and MS's name.
Microsoft =
MikeRowSoft =
Pretty similar, no?
It's not just the -soft suffix that gives MS grounds to pursue action, it's the fact that ALL THREE syllables are pronounced identically.
IANAL but this sounds like a slam dunk for Mr Rowe.
Quoth the article: "He registered the domain in August because he thought it would be cool to have a site that sounded like the famous company".
IAANAL but it seems like his intent to piggyback on the reputation of the Redmond-based company couldn't be more clear. Being 17 doesn't excuse him from playing by the rules.