Although it's obviously poorly worded, you could make a case for a patent removing an obstacle. You've just invested millions of dollars in developing a technology, but you're afraid it'll get stolen if you go public. The patent protects your work, so you can now go public with it and develop it into a working product. Yes, people may have to license from HP in the future, but they can also now read the patent and possibly get inspiration to do other things not covered by it, pushing technology even further. It's not like HP took the technology from a JEDEC meeting.
To put it simply, the fact remains that you simply cannot put huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere and NOT get global warming.
Funny, those scientists, not long ago (many of them still probably working in the field) attributed global cooling to the products of our industrial revolution too. Who's right?
The scientists who say "calm down, there's no problem" don't get as much recognition as the Chicken Littles out there, so I guess many are going for fame instead of science. It's easy to get the public riled-up about an imagined or overrepresented danger, just look at the Alar scare.
They have the MySQL manual on the site although it does not come under GPL and is not free to distribute.
From the Manual: Copyright (c) 1997-2000 TcX AB, Detron HB and MySQL Finland AB
Sounds like pretty clear copyright infringement to me, unless they link straight to mysql.com for it. Even then requiring registration to them for someone else's product is quite unethical. Sick'em boys.
In the '70s if I remember PJ's book "All the Trouble in the World" correctly. Take all the current panic statements, replace "warming" with "cooling" and you have the situation then.
Corporations putting financial pressure specifically on those who need their products (school: already MS infrastructured, can't afford to re-do) but can't afford to pay. This is what similes are for.
An artillery round is only 120mm, 155mm, 8" or so in diameter and a couple to a few feet long. It has not much of a radar cross-section, and it emits no real heat signature although we do have "rocket-assisted projectile" rounds, but those only burn going up, not coming down (beautiful sight to see 100 of them going through the air though -- from behind, of course, otherwise not so pretty).
At least on our side (others may have it), some rounds (copperhead) are also guided in the final phase of the trajectory, so you may have a small, fast, irregularly-moving target with no heat signature and only several seconds to hit it in. You're only going to hit it at the bottom of the trajectory, so it's going to land somewhere near where they wanted unless you can actually destroy it in flight (extremely difficult since we're talking about a heavy, hard, steel brick). An artillery barrage is often thousands of shells going anyway, try to hit all those.
I think the current strategy is best -- an enemy howitzer will get off one round, and only one, instead of us just trying to pick off the next thousand they fire. You could probably try to protect one small very sensitive target though.
Optical and radar-based systems, which this one is not, pick up the bullet before it gets 50 feet out of the barrel (or the muzzle flash, using an infrared CCD camera). Since the speed of a bullet is about 2500 feet/sec., the target may have more than a second of warning to duck out of the way, depending on the range.
In U.S. artillery, there is a system of radar hooked up to howitzers via RF. If an enemy fires a shot, we can have a round in the air going towards whoever shot at us before their round even lands. I've seen it, it works, it is cool. Hook this sniper detection system up with a miniaturized one of those with maybe 30mm cannons from networked Bradleys for return fire, and we have some dead snipers.
Let's see, how long ago did I submit the X10 disabling story? Way back. I also brought up the possibility of editing that cookie to make the 30 days more or less permanent. I haven't had time to test this theory, so has anyone tried it yet?
IIRC, most of the concepts of copyrights, even in the rest of Europe, were based on the concept of Natural Law. That is, what your create is naturally yours because you wrote it, period. It might have been good to mention that in the article to show how novel the Constitution is on this subject.
The Framers broke with this tradition in actually preferring no copyright at all, but realized that some concessions need to be made to creators of works in order to give them incentive to keep creating.
It won't happen for the same reasons that Apple didn't go to the IBM POWER architecture -- they need a chip they can run in their desktops and their notebooks. The PPC has a very good power/performance ratio, but can you imaging a notebook with an Alpha or a POWER 4?
One computer per department that does not have knowledge on it is connected to the net, but is also networked to other boxes in the department that may or may not have knowledge on them.
Not necessarily. If those other computers have any classified information on them, they will be on an entirely different network, conforming to TEMPEST standards to prevent snooping, which means not only will they not be connected, but the wires on the two networks won't even be run anywhere close to each other. With non-classified networks, the lone computer(s) is/are usually firewalled off from the rest of the network.
Okay, so that's what they told the public. But it's standard practice in the DoD to do regression testing on any hotfix or patch before releasing it to the theater. Any business would be smart to do the same.
"NSA APPROVED" wouldn't necessarily mean the patch works right in your organization.
These baselines are pretty much common sense with a bit of admin knowledge thrown in. Just apply your own when using them.
No, by having had that NSA baseline for a while, modifying it a bit for our theater, and trying to get our sysadmins to use it. We also stay on top of the baseline to keep it up to date with the latest threats (we're thinking of using an Acrobat expiration plugin to make sure what's out there is the most recent).
Try the baselines. They work.
And don't forget this is the same NSA that is working on a hardened version of Linux.
We've been using these "Security Baselines" as we call them in our organization for a while.
We have a *LOT* of Win2K boxes spread over a continent, and whenever one's compromised, we always find that the administrator or operator was not following the baseline. I don't know of any baselined machines being compromised.
I don't remember any attempts to try Clinton in court. Are you thinking of impeachment? That wasn't a court, that was the Senate.
Many privately and in the press were wondering why we even have to go through impeachment, why not just indict him like any other citizen and put him in front of a jury. Why these special rights?
And this brilliant insight comes from which part of the Constitution, exactly?
See Article I, Section 3 and Article II, Section 4. If he's impeached, then you can try him. This is to stop political persecutions from using the courts as a tool. And as you can see, the Constitution worked as it should and stopped this one.
I must continue to insist that the "f*cking" U.S. President is most certainly not above the law
Clinton was slime and I'm glad he's gone, but where are your cries to indict Bush for past crimes, such as perjury in a civil suit (hmmm, sounds familiar)? It seems we should apply the law fairly if at all.
This is more appropriate than you think. The US originally settled with the Bey of Tripoli for a lot of cash -- we paid a set price up front for them to leave us alone, just like we currently pay the RIAA. It was signed before Washington and read to the senate by Adams before ratification (this is also the treaty where we declare that the US is not a Christian nation).
Move to the modern parallel, in 1800 the Bey got greedy and wanted more. We said no and he got mad. Jefferson sent some frigates in 1800 to protect our ships and then many more in 1801 plus the Marines to kick ass and end it.
Now the RIAA is getting greedy, wanting more than their status-quo share. Time to send in the Marines.
"The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither." -- Thomas Jefferson
More closely, it's "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" and it's Benjamin Franklin, not Thomas Jefferson, you nimwit.
[RANT]So many people say shit about U.S. government without knowing the fucking constitution and make bad misquotes from the Founding Fathers (including the media and our elected idiots), it's starting to really piss me off!
Especially that fucking Paul Weyrich over at www.aim.org saying Jeffords should be subject to a special election for jumping party ship. Where in the Constitution does it say anything about party concerning the election of senators? Nowhere! A correct quote from George Washington's farewell address: "Let me... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally."
Or those assholes during the Clinton witchhunt complaining about why can't we just try him in court like any other person? Because he's the fucking President you idiot![/RANT]
Sorry, little sleep and no coffee yet. There goes my karma.
...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...
Elegant law, it doesn't abridge speech in anyway, just requires the speech contain accurate information. I love the interstate commerce angle -- yep, this would actually improve interstate commerce in theory since you could contact the company trying to sell you something (if the spammer were an honest company trying to sell you a real product). And this law isn't directed at political speech, just commercial, so it enjoys lots of precedent behind it.
In order to gain consumer acceptance, the industry will have to offer something BETTER or CHEAPER.
If together the SDMI Stasi form a monopoly of electronic devices and produced music, then better doesn't matter -- you'll take what they give if you want anything.
Cheaper they can take care of by taking a loss and pricing SDMI hardware far below what anyone outside the monopoly can sell non-SDMI hardware at. Then they'll jack the prices back up way high once non-SDMI producers go out of business.
They'll also pay off the governments not only to make this monopoly legal, but to enforce compliance with it (SDMI says "DMCA is just the beginning").
However, go get exemption from local taxes (income, gas, sales, etc.) you must be able to get under that SOFA agreement. To do that, you need to get "Technical Expert" status, which means it helps to have the IT degree and experience. It's a review process that can take a while and approval is subject to whether or not the reviewer got laid last night. Otherwise, your TA status gets denied and they'll only hire you under normal local working rules where you pay all taxes.
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Although it's obviously poorly worded, you could make a case for a patent removing an obstacle. You've just invested millions of dollars in developing a technology, but you're afraid it'll get stolen if you go public. The patent protects your work, so you can now go public with it and develop it into a working product. Yes, people may have to license from HP in the future, but they can also now read the patent and possibly get inspiration to do other things not covered by it, pushing technology even further. It's not like HP took the technology from a JEDEC meeting.
To put it simply, the fact remains that you simply cannot put huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere and NOT get global warming.
Funny, those scientists, not long ago (many of them still probably working in the field) attributed global cooling to the products of our industrial revolution too. Who's right?
The scientists who say "calm down, there's no problem" don't get as much recognition as the Chicken Littles out there, so I guess many are going for fame instead of science. It's easy to get the public riled-up about an imagined or overrepresented danger, just look at the Alar scare.
They have the MySQL manual on the site although it does not come under GPL and is not free to distribute.
From the Manual: Copyright (c) 1997-2000 TcX AB, Detron HB and MySQL Finland AB
Sounds like pretty clear copyright infringement to me, unless they link straight to mysql.com for it. Even then requiring registration to them for someone else's product is quite unethical. Sick'em boys.
In the '70s if I remember PJ's book "All the Trouble in the World" correctly. Take all the current panic statements, replace "warming" with "cooling" and you have the situation then.
Corporations putting financial pressure specifically on those who need their products (school: already MS infrastructured, can't afford to re-do) but can't afford to pay. This is what similes are for.
An artillery round is only 120mm, 155mm, 8" or so in diameter and a couple to a few feet long. It has not much of a radar cross-section, and it emits no real heat signature although we do have "rocket-assisted projectile" rounds, but those only burn going up, not coming down (beautiful sight to see 100 of them going through the air though -- from behind, of course, otherwise not so pretty).
At least on our side (others may have it), some rounds (copperhead) are also guided in the final phase of the trajectory, so you may have a small, fast, irregularly-moving target with no heat signature and only several seconds to hit it in. You're only going to hit it at the bottom of the trajectory, so it's going to land somewhere near where they wanted unless you can actually destroy it in flight (extremely difficult since we're talking about a heavy, hard, steel brick). An artillery barrage is often thousands of shells going anyway, try to hit all those.
I think the current strategy is best -- an enemy howitzer will get off one round, and only one, instead of us just trying to pick off the next thousand they fire. You could probably try to protect one small very sensitive target though.
Optical and radar-based systems, which this one is not, pick up the bullet before it gets 50 feet out of the barrel (or the muzzle flash, using an infrared CCD camera). Since the speed of a bullet is about 2500 feet/sec., the target may have more than a second of warning to duck out of the way, depending on the range.
In U.S. artillery, there is a system of radar hooked up to howitzers via RF. If an enemy fires a shot, we can have a round in the air going towards whoever shot at us before their round even lands. I've seen it, it works, it is cool. Hook this sniper detection system up with a miniaturized one of those with maybe 30mm cannons from networked Bradleys for return fire, and we have some dead snipers.
BANG! rrrrrrrrrrr rrrr BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG
You didn't ask for it and they mailed it to you? According to the post office, it's yours.
Let's see, how long ago did I submit the X10 disabling story? Way back. I also brought up the possibility of editing that cookie to make the 30 days more or less permanent. I haven't had time to test this theory, so has anyone tried it yet?
IIRC, most of the concepts of copyrights, even in the rest of Europe, were based on the concept of Natural Law. That is, what your create is naturally yours because you wrote it, period. It might have been good to mention that in the article to show how novel the Constitution is on this subject.
The Framers broke with this tradition in actually preferring no copyright at all, but realized that some concessions need to be made to creators of works in order to give them incentive to keep creating.
It won't happen for the same reasons that Apple didn't go to the IBM POWER architecture -- they need a chip they can run in their desktops and their notebooks. The PPC has a very good power/performance ratio, but can you imaging a notebook with an Alpha or a POWER 4?
One computer per department that does not have knowledge on it is connected to the net, but is also networked to other boxes in the department that may or may not have knowledge on them.
Not necessarily. If those other computers have any classified information on them, they will be on an entirely different network, conforming to TEMPEST standards to prevent snooping, which means not only will they not be connected, but the wires on the two networks won't even be run anywhere close to each other. With non-classified networks, the lone computer(s) is/are usually firewalled off from the rest of the network.
Okay, so that's what they told the public. But it's standard practice in the DoD to do regression testing on any hotfix or patch before releasing it to the theater. Any business would be smart to do the same.
"NSA APPROVED" wouldn't necessarily mean the patch works right in your organization.
These baselines are pretty much common sense with a bit of admin knowledge thrown in. Just apply your own when using them.
No, by having had that NSA baseline for a while, modifying it a bit for our theater, and trying to get our sysadmins to use it. We also stay on top of the baseline to keep it up to date with the latest threats (we're thinking of using an Acrobat expiration plugin to make sure what's out there is the most recent).
Try the baselines. They work.
And don't forget this is the same NSA that is working on a hardened version of Linux.
We've been using these "Security Baselines" as we call them in our organization for a while.
We have a *LOT* of Win2K boxes spread over a continent, and whenever one's compromised, we always find that the administrator or operator was not following the baseline. I don't know of any baselined machines being compromised.
Use these; they're a Good Thing.
I don't remember any attempts to try Clinton in court. Are you thinking of impeachment? That wasn't a court, that was the Senate.
Many privately and in the press were wondering why we even have to go through impeachment, why not just indict him like any other citizen and put him in front of a jury. Why these special rights?
And this brilliant insight comes from which part of the Constitution, exactly?
See Article I, Section 3 and Article II, Section 4. If he's impeached, then you can try him. This is to stop political persecutions from using the courts as a tool. And as you can see, the Constitution worked as it should and stopped this one.
I must continue to insist that the "f*cking" U.S. President is most certainly not above the law
Clinton was slime and I'm glad he's gone, but where are your cries to indict Bush for past crimes, such as perjury in a civil suit (hmmm, sounds familiar)? It seems we should apply the law fairly if at all.
This is more appropriate than you think. The US originally settled with the Bey of Tripoli for a lot of cash -- we paid a set price up front for them to leave us alone, just like we currently pay the RIAA. It was signed before Washington and read to the senate by Adams before ratification (this is also the treaty where we declare that the US is not a Christian nation).
Move to the modern parallel, in 1800 the Bey got greedy and wanted more. We said no and he got mad. Jefferson sent some frigates in 1800 to protect our ships and then many more in 1801 plus the Marines to kick ass and end it.
Now the RIAA is getting greedy, wanting more than their status-quo share. Time to send in the Marines.
"The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither." -- Thomas Jefferson
More closely, it's "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" and it's Benjamin Franklin, not Thomas Jefferson, you nimwit.
[RANT]So many people say shit about U.S. government without knowing the fucking constitution and make bad misquotes from the Founding Fathers (including the media and our elected idiots), it's starting to really piss me off!
Especially that fucking Paul Weyrich over at www.aim.org saying Jeffords should be subject to a special election for jumping party ship. Where in the Constitution does it say anything about party concerning the election of senators? Nowhere! A correct quote from George Washington's farewell address: "Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally."
Or those assholes during the Clinton witchhunt complaining about why can't we just try him in court like any other person? Because he's the fucking President you idiot![/RANT]
Sorry, little sleep and no coffee yet. There goes my karma.
Elegant law, it doesn't abridge speech in anyway, just requires the speech contain accurate information. I love the interstate commerce angle -- yep, this would actually improve interstate commerce in theory since you could contact the company trying to sell you something (if the spammer were an honest company trying to sell you a real product). And this law isn't directed at political speech, just commercial, so it enjoys lots of precedent behind it.
I think he should have used Clarence Earl Gideon as a better example (he's the reason you always get to have a lawyer no matter what).
I cannot kill my neighbors accidently with a bit of code. You could kill them accidently with a howitizer
Not easy, those things have a minimum range. However, some idiot in the next town who needed killin'...
Let's see, a 155 should be able to reach from my house to the girl who backed over my Lotus and tried to weasel out of responsibility for it.
In order to gain consumer acceptance, the industry will have to offer something BETTER or CHEAPER.
If together the SDMI Stasi form a monopoly of electronic devices and produced music, then better doesn't matter -- you'll take what they give if you want anything.
Cheaper they can take care of by taking a loss and pricing SDMI hardware far below what anyone outside the monopoly can sell non-SDMI hardware at. Then they'll jack the prices back up way high once non-SDMI producers go out of business.
They'll also pay off the governments not only to make this monopoly legal, but to enforce compliance with it (SDMI says "DMCA is just the beginning").
LCD pro & CRT con: CRTs require digital to analog conversion in the graphics card, LCDs can go straight digital if you have the right equipment.
However, go get exemption from local taxes (income, gas, sales, etc.) you must be able to get under that SOFA agreement. To do that, you need to get "Technical Expert" status, which means it helps to have the IT degree and experience. It's a review process that can take a while and approval is subject to whether or not the reviewer got laid last night. Otherwise, your TA status gets denied and they'll only hire you under normal local working rules where you pay all taxes.
Geez, 200+ years and you're still harping on us about that little incident.