I registered auctionnet.com in July of 1995 a full four months before this guy applied for his patent and I had to settle for that domain name because someone else had already gotten auction.com. Just what does this judge think we were doing with the domain names like these?
You may have read the Constitution but you clearly don't understand Constitutional Law. If you will follow the link I provided you'll find that my points came directly from a document written by "Marjorie W. Hodges, Policy Advisor, Office of Information Technologies at Cornell University, and Director of the Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell" and "Steven L. Worona, Assistant to the Vice President for Information Technologies at Cornell University, and Director of the Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell" so I am certain everything I said is correct.
If you'll follow the link I provided you'll find that my points came directly from a document written by "Marjorie W. Hodges, Policy Advisor, Office of Information Technologies at Cornell University, and Director of the Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell" and "Steven L. Worona, Assistant to the Vice President for Information Technologies at Cornell University, and Director of the Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell" so I am certain everything I said is correct.
You are allowed to yell "fire!" in a burning theater because no law analogous to the DMCA that makes it illegal.
I have received a C&D letter and I can attest that it feels like a threat. However, I am certain that the lawyer who sent it would say it was not a threat but simply a warning.
The First Amendment most certainly does not grant you the right to say what you want, when you want, and damned be the consequences.
The article to which I replied said:
actually, it does.
and my post showed that actually, it doesn't.
If people are going to oppose the DMCA they should have at least a basic understanding of the law. Otherwise they are wasting everyone's time. For the record, I am opposed to the DMCA.
You are not allowed to shout "fire!" in a crowded theater. You are not allowed to using "fighting words" (words intended to incite violence). You are not allowed to threaten people. You are not allowed to libel or slander people. You are not allowed to be "obscene".
Yes, if one thinks about it, the U.S. only became a power in the 20th century and didn't become a super power until the latter half of the 20th century. This is just about the length of a single career diplomat's working life.
Once that is realized, one can see that the U.S. really is an inexperienced newcomer when it comes to global politics.
What has happened is the U.S. has been left holding the bag. The results of over 500 years of European imperialism, 2000 years of European bickering, and 3000+ years of Middle Eastern bickering have been dropped into the lap of the U.S. and now we are suddenly responsible for all the ills of the world.
This is all very convenient for those who actually initiated the problems.
I am not saying the U.S. hasn't caused some problems but we are not evil as some people would like to portray us.
It may be that my memory is playing tricks on me but I do remember that he was recording onto video tape, not audio reel-to-reel. He was intercepting the signal at some point before the channels are broken out (I assume that would be the tuner stage).
I see there is an unresolved (but generally unfavorable) debate on this idea here.
I'm not sure where 1.2 GHz comes into this as (at least in the US) television is in the 54 to 806 MHz range.
As to how simply relating a vague memory can be "BS", I am completely puzzled.
I seem to remember reading about a guy who was recording the signal before it got to the tuner. Then he played it back into the tuner and selected the show he wanted to watch. He had recorded all the available channels at once.
I read about this a long time ago. Probably back in the 1970s because I think it was when VCRs were coming out and the idea of recording a show was a new idea.
While I find it hard to believe that musical scores can contain errors for this purpose (the effect on the ear is pretty noticeable) I know for a fact that road maps contain minor errors for copyright protection purposes so maybe it does happen in musical scores too.
I had always thought that road maps were made from some sort of known good data but when a friend of mine worked for a map making company I learned otherwise. The maps he drew were copies of maps from other sources (such as the competition). He would get several maps of an area and then copy the consistent portions. If he couldn't figure out what was consistent he would make something up that wouldn't greatly affect someone trying to follow the map.
There's also Caudium which is a fork of the Roxen 1.3 code base. Version 1.3 runs with Pike 7.4.
Anyone who likes AOLserver but not Tcl should look at Roxen (and/or Caudium) as they are both single process multi-threaded web servers with built-in scripting.
I'm not trying to be argumentative but can you provide a cite for that? I can't find one and all the pages I have found (such as this one) say that the U.S. has not had a formal declaration of war since 1940 (although the War Powers Resolution has been used).
The press covered Vietnam in detail. It was the "living room war" and that led directly to the protests.
It was the first conflict where television was widely available. In 1946 there were only 8,000 sets in the U.S. By 1950 there were 3.88M sets (9% of the population) and by 1955 64.5% of the population had a set. The shooting portion Korean conflict was from 1950 to 1953 so television wasn't able to have much of an affect.
The Pentagon learned their lesson from Vietnam and that is why no conflict since then has been covered by the press in the same way. Today we get the sanitized news the Pentagon wants us to get.
Btw: the last actual war the U.S. had was WWII. Everything since then has been a "conflict" or "police action" or some other term.
[from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p,
where re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search
for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches
to it, via Unix grep(1)] To rapidly scan a file or set
of files looking for a particular string or pattern (when browsing
through a large set of files, one may speak of `grepping
around'). By extension, to look for something by pattern. "Grep
the bulletin board for the system backup schedule, would you?"
See also vgrep.
[It has been alleged that the source is from the title of a
paper "A General Regular Expression Parser", but dmr confirms
the g/re/p etymology -ESR]
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That's too bad because Houston, we have a problem leads to an interesting result if you consider rewriting it in light of the admonishment There are no problems, only opportunities. Then the Apollo XIII phrase becomes equivalent to Houston, we have an opportunity which tickles my funny bone just right.
Yes! I have long thought that teaching science and mathematics in forward chronological order would make sense. Start kids out with things like "You have some sheep. How will you keep track of them? Well, people invented/discovered numbers....". It would all make so much more sense if people knew why discoveries were made, what the impetus was, and whose shoulders were stood upon.
History should be taught in reverse chronological order so as to tie it to something relevant to the student. After all, most people don't care what happened a few thousand years ago (or even few decades ago). The course would start with today's headlines and explain what happened yesterday to cause those headlines and then recurse back to the beginning.
The bit about them being expensive to maintain is true. I used to work for an arcade back in the early 1980s.
Keeping the pinball machines running required someone with specialized knowledge, skill, patience, and time. Keeping the video games running only involved clearing jammed coins and cleaning the glass.
It was pretty obvious at that time that pinball was going to be in trouble, economically speaking.
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My daughter is named after Meg Murry from A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.
It's a small point but I'd like to see people start using a phrase like copy crippled instead of copy protected as protected has a positive connotation.
I think of developers in the same terms as doctors and lawyers: the "source" is available as anyone can read medical or law books and you can even practice medicine or law on yourself.
The reason that doctors and lawyers are successful from an economic perspective is because they are a restricted club when it comes to performing their work for others.
Once again, I am forced to conclude that an organization like the AMA or ABA with state licensing for professional developers would benefit developers.
Whether or not it would benefit society is still up in the air. It would add professional liability for bad software (perhaps a good thing) but it would also raise the cost of software for society.
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I registered auctionnet.com in July of 1995 a full four months before this guy applied for his patent and I had to settle for that domain name because someone else had already gotten auction.com. Just what does this judge think we were doing with the domain names like these?
You may have read the Constitution but you clearly don't understand Constitutional Law. If you will follow the link I provided you'll find that my points came directly from a document written by "Marjorie W. Hodges, Policy Advisor, Office of Information Technologies at Cornell University, and Director of the Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell" and "Steven L. Worona, Assistant to the Vice President for Information Technologies at Cornell University, and Director of the Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell" so I am certain everything I said is correct.
If you'll follow the link I provided you'll find that my points came directly from a document written by "Marjorie W. Hodges, Policy Advisor, Office of Information Technologies at Cornell University, and Director of the Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell" and "Steven L. Worona, Assistant to the Vice President for Information Technologies at Cornell University, and Director of the Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell" so I am certain everything I said is correct.
Except in this case there is a law (the DMCA) which says you can't, even if metaphorically the theater is on fire.
You are allowed to yell "fire!" in a burning theater because no law analogous to the DMCA that makes it illegal.
I have received a C&D letter and I can attest that it feels like a threat. However, I am certain that the lawyer who sent it would say it was not a threat but simply a warning.
The original article said:
The article to which I replied said: and my post showed that actually, it doesn't.If people are going to oppose the DMCA they should have at least a basic understanding of the law. Otherwise they are wasting everyone's time. For the record, I am opposed to the DMCA.
It doesn't.
You are not allowed to shout "fire!" in a crowded theater.
You are not allowed to using "fighting words" (words intended to incite violence).
You are not allowed to threaten people.
You are not allowed to libel or slander people.
You are not allowed to be "obscene".
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cem9732.ht ml
I think you have mixed up two groups of people here. By definition "GPL-fanatics" don't write closed-source software.
You must mean some different Europe from the one I know. The one I know is populated by regular people not saints.
You do realize you're a bigot, right?
Yes, if one thinks about it, the U.S. only became a power in the 20th century and didn't become a super power until the latter half of the 20th century. This is just about the length of a single career diplomat's working life.
Once that is realized, one can see that the U.S. really is an inexperienced newcomer when it comes to global politics.
What has happened is the U.S. has been left holding the bag. The results of over 500 years of European imperialism, 2000 years of European bickering, and 3000+ years of Middle Eastern bickering have been dropped into the lap of the U.S. and now we are suddenly responsible for all the ills of the world.
This is all very convenient for those who actually initiated the problems.
I am not saying the U.S. hasn't caused some problems but we are not evil as some people would like to portray us.
It may be that my memory is playing tricks on me but I do remember that he was recording onto video tape, not audio reel-to-reel. He was intercepting the signal at some point before the channels are broken out (I assume that would be the tuner stage).
I see there is an unresolved (but generally unfavorable) debate on this idea here.
I'm not sure where 1.2 GHz comes into this as (at least in the US) television is in the 54 to 806 MHz range.
As to how simply relating a vague memory can be "BS", I am completely puzzled.
What I am (vaguely) remembering was from quite some time ago. It was an all analog system so there was no need to sample.
I seem to remember reading about a guy who was recording the signal before it got to the tuner. Then he played it back into the tuner and selected the show he wanted to watch. He had recorded all the available channels at once.
I read about this a long time ago. Probably back in the 1970s because I think it was when VCRs were coming out and the idea of recording a show was a new idea.
While I find it hard to believe that musical scores can contain errors for this purpose (the effect on the ear is pretty noticeable) I know for a fact that road maps contain minor errors for copyright protection purposes so maybe it does happen in musical scores too.
I had always thought that road maps were made from some sort of known good data but when a friend of mine worked for a map making company I learned otherwise. The maps he drew were copies of maps from other sources (such as the competition). He would get several maps of an area and then copy the consistent portions. If he couldn't figure out what was consistent he would make something up that wouldn't greatly affect someone trying to follow the map.
There's also Caudium which is a fork of the Roxen 1.3 code base. Version 1.3 runs with Pike 7.4.
Anyone who likes AOLserver but not Tcl should look at Roxen (and/or Caudium) as they are both single process multi-threaded web servers with built-in scripting.
I'm not trying to be argumentative but can you provide a cite for that? I can't find one and all the pages I have found (such as this one) say that the U.S. has not had a formal declaration of war since 1940 (although the War Powers Resolution has been used).
OT: in my original post s/affect/effect/.
The press covered Vietnam in detail. It was the "living room war" and that led directly to the protests.
It was the first conflict where television was widely available. In 1946 there were only 8,000 sets in the U.S. By 1950 there were 3.88M sets (9% of the population) and by 1955 64.5% of the population had a set. The shooting portion Korean conflict was from 1950 to 1953 so television wasn't able to have much of an affect.
The Pentagon learned their lesson from Vietnam and that is why no conflict since then has been covered by the press in the same way. Today we get the sanitized news the Pentagon wants us to get.
Btw: the last actual war the U.S. had was WWII. Everything since then has been a "conflict" or "police action" or some other term.
From The Jargon File...
That's too bad because Houston, we have a problem leads to an interesting result if you consider rewriting it in light of the admonishment There are no problems, only opportunities. Then the Apollo XIII phrase becomes equivalent to Houston, we have an opportunity which tickles my funny bone just right.
Yes! I have long thought that teaching science and mathematics in forward chronological order would make sense. Start kids out with things like "You have some sheep. How will you keep track of them? Well, people invented/discovered numbers....". It would all make so much more sense if people knew why discoveries were made, what the impetus was, and whose shoulders were stood upon.
History should be taught in reverse chronological order so as to tie it to something relevant to the student. After all, most people don't care what happened a few thousand years ago (or even few decades ago). The course would start with today's headlines and explain what happened yesterday to cause those headlines and then recurse back to the beginning.
The bit about them being expensive to maintain is true. I used to work for an arcade back in the early 1980s.
Keeping the pinball machines running required someone with specialized knowledge, skill, patience, and time. Keeping the video games running only involved clearing jammed coins and cleaning the glass.
It was pretty obvious at that time that pinball was going to be in trouble, economically speaking.
My daughter is named after Meg Murry from A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.
It's a small point but I'd like to see people start using a phrase like copy crippled instead of copy protected as protected has a positive connotation.
I think of developers in the same terms as doctors and lawyers: the "source" is available as anyone can read medical or law books and you can even practice medicine or law on yourself.
The reason that doctors and lawyers are successful from an economic perspective is because they are a restricted club when it comes to performing their work for others.
Once again, I am forced to conclude that an organization like the AMA or ABA with state licensing for professional developers would benefit developers.
Whether or not it would benefit society is still up in the air. It would add professional liability for bad software (perhaps a good thing) but it would also raise the cost of software for society.