there are those of us who really love robert patrick, and think he's a vast improvement over the dull, lifeless david duchovny (whose finest moment came as a Nice Guy opposing a sadistic Brad Pitt in Kalifornia, IMO).
dunno about lucy though. we'll have to see. but patrick is da man.
btw - it's renee o'connor. who actually looks a bit more like gillian anderson than lucy does. well whatever:)
oh yeah. hinted at? obviously you missed the final ep of Xena. oops, did I say something bad?:)
that's why I suggested the gecko and llama books. those are books you come to the end of. what libraries, especially public libraries, want are tutorial books.
unfortunately, that'd be my list too, well excepting #6. there are no good introductory books to mac programming, really, other than maybe Learn C On The Macintosh which is for total newbies.
mac books jump straight from hello-world to let's build a device driver... not too much inbetween:)
on the other hand, the llama book works fine for us too.:)
I'd actually put the Gecko book ahead of the Camel book on my buy-list for library use. most people who want the Camel book will want to buy it. the Gecko and Llama books will come back.
the problem with getting K&R and Knuth is going to be book theft. if you have good patron returns, go for them. but watch them. I might be tempted to slot them for reference.
Contracting Parties shall provide adequate legal protection and effective legal remedies against the circumvention of effective technological measures that are used by authors in connection with the exercise of their rights under this Treaty or the Berne Convention and that restrict acts, in respect of their works, which are not authorized by the authors concerned or permitted by law.
well, that's Article 11, anyway.
note what it doesn't say: it doesn't require countries to prosecute people who create programs which could be used to circumvent copyright. it only requires "effective measures." that's pretty loose talk. there's no way it requires signatories to go as far as the DMCA.
sigh. I wish Manley was still Industry Minister. we wouldn't be having this nonsense with him around.
a quibble. SOCAN is not actually the Canadian version of the RIAA. It's a copyright collective that represents artists, and as such is the Canadian version of ASCAP and BMI.
also, the decision by the Copyright Board is currently on appeal to the Federal Court of Appeal, and doesn't specify any actual ISP tax. that is, it's just a ruling on who would be liable in the case of copyright infringement on the 'net, rather than something like the CDR tax.
note for the Adobaphobes. the Copyright Board seems to have gone Acrobat-happy. on the flip side, they're running Apache.:)
Russia should issue arrest warrants for the Adobe programmers who wrote the eBook code that prevents users from making backups (illegal in Russia), and figure out a way to lure them to Moscow.
second of all, people should read my posts. from that post:
Trademark law isn't explicitly based on a use-it-or-lose-it theory. However, the theory it is based on is different. The above poster seems to have a decent grasp of the effects of the theory, but I should try my best to explicate the actual theory.
Basically, the idea is to prevent consumer confusion. The test is, if a consumer looking at the two products, thought they were either the same or in some way connected to the same source, then it's a trademark infringement. Look and feel can get involved in interesting ways.
For example, suppose I market a cola product. If its logo looks quite a lot like one of the Major Producers (but not totally identical - that gets me into copyright, and I'm fried anyway), I'm probably violating trademark law, because a consumer would likely be confused as to where the pop came from at the point of purchase. On the other hand, suppose I market a nacho chip bag with the same logo. I'm probably still violating trademark law, because a consumer would think the aforementioned Major Producer had branched out. But suppose I'm marketing a brand of tampons. Then, the odds become fairly high that the consumer will not be confused, and on I go.
(some stuff about Adobe and KIlustrator snipped)
Finally, as for the use-it-or-lose-it part of trademark law. This is more of a practical side of the law, rather than an actual legal principle. Basically, the problem is that if the ordinary consumer starts using a trademark as a generic term, then it loses its trademark value, legally. The most famous example is the word "thermos". This was originally a trademarked word, coined for a patented device, the vacuum bottle. The Thermos company used to keep battalions of lawyers around to sue stores to stop them from labelling the areas in their stores where they kept the vacuum bottles Thermos, but instead put up signs like Vacuum Bottles.
The short version of the story: They failed. Partly because they used patent protection to ensure that people thought that all vacuum bottles had the name Thermos on them. So, when the patents expired, people referred to all their competitors as thermos makers.
The same thing has probably happened to Xerox, but it hasn't been tested in a court so far as I know.
But, their vigorous suing did prolong the length of life of their trademark. By suing people to stop them from referring to their trademark in a generic way, they reduced the likelihood that courts would think that people actually were using it in a generic way.
The basic principle: Trademarks embody the value of commercial propaganda. The better your propaganda, the more valuable your trademark.
so there ya go. quit with this "I Must Sue Everyone Who Calls Anything By A Name Vaguely Similar To My Trademark Or I Will Lose My Rights" myth. it's wrong. if your lawyer says that to you, your lawyer is:
steely dan has a legion of dedicated fans. plus, their records are very difficult to find, unlike rage (who get searched for a lot because most of their fans are dead broke all the time).
Although it might have been useful to include a setting that lets you choose both drives, there is probably a good reason why NickLock only allows you to select between single drives or none. For one thing, only a few drives run as slave by default if no jumper mode is set. The majority of drives run in single or master mode by default, and if you use two of them, there is no way to assign the specific drives to master or slave, thus causing a conflict.
usually though, the Government of the United States is the executive branch. that's the part that actually does things.
it's oversimplifying the government somewhat to say that everything the supreme court does is totally supported by all branches. I mean, look at Roe vs. Wade and the current executive branch.
A lot of employers, especially the kind with a lot of employees, will not search individual employees' email as a matter of course. What they will do is run keyword searches on everybody's email. PGP defeats that.
Also, it stops them from digging through your email and finding cause for dismissal there, though it will make them suspicious.
And finally, one never has to pray for a dumb employer. They grow on trees. See the nearest PHB.
In Berne Convention countries (which includes the United States, and has since 1988 I believe), everything you write is automatically copyrighted, merely by your act of creating it.
This has included letters in the past.
In other words, private email you send is (probably) copyrighted as a matter of course. There'd be an implied license allowing delivery servers to copy it for the purposes of delivery, but that would be it.
I don't know of any rulings before the courts on this yet, but it's bound to happen, and I think that's what'll happen.
So in other words, yes, the original poster would be right. Encrypt your email, and anyone who decrypts it without your permission is decrypting a copyrighted item. Oops.
A lot of Americans haven't yet fully grasped the Berne Convention. Before the U.S. joined the Berne Convention, it was a registration-only copyright system, where in order to get a copyright on something, you had to register it, while the rest of the western world used optional registration.
If a user of a common carrier service is using the service for illegal activities, that service can be disconnected. For example, look at post boxes. The postal service is a common carrier, but if you use a rented box to further illegal activity, then that box can be taken away.
By adding in the warning about copyright, ISPs are really just covering their butts. They're giving themselves the leeway to cut service off at their discretion, rather than forcing themselves to wait for a court order.
actually, the boy scouts aren't allowed to discriminate against gays because they're a private organization.
they're allowed to discriminate against gays because they're a religious organization, and the gay lifestyle disagrees with their religious, i.e. constitutionally-protected, views.
however, the government of the United States had nothing to do with it. it was a private suit launched by private people, settled by the Supreme Court.
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there are those of us who really love robert patrick, and think he's a vast improvement over the dull, lifeless david duchovny (whose finest moment came as a Nice Guy opposing a sadistic Brad Pitt in Kalifornia, IMO).
dunno about lucy though. we'll have to see. but patrick is da man.
btw - it's renee o'connor. who actually looks a bit more like gillian anderson than lucy does. well whatever :)
oh yeah. hinted at? obviously you missed the final ep of Xena. oops, did I say something bad? :)
sadly, this is untrue.
you will probably steal the one you already have.
that's why I suggested the gecko and llama books. those are books you come to the end of. what libraries, especially public libraries, want are tutorial books.
yes! get it. get everything Levy's written. he's awesome.
he'll turn your teenagers into programmers. they'll go from computers-are-neat to wow, cool, we must all hack. :)
I'm a macgeek.
unfortunately, that'd be my list too, well excepting #6. there are no good introductory books to mac programming, really, other than maybe Learn C On The Macintosh which is for total newbies.
mac books jump straight from hello-world to let's build a device driver... not too much inbetween :)
on the other hand, the llama book works fine for us too. :)
remember, this is a public library.
I'd actually put the Gecko book ahead of the Camel book on my buy-list for library use. most people who want the Camel book will want to buy it. the Gecko and Llama books will come back.
the problem with getting K&R and Knuth is going to be book theft. if you have good patron returns, go for them. but watch them. I might be tempted to slot them for reference.
oh yeah. I'm an LIS student. can you tell? :)
perhaps the original poster is thinking of works-for-hire for corporate copyright, in which case your objections fail to stand.
It sounds to me like you were a victim of a programmer Ensuring Job Security.
if there are no other quality programmers, the in-house guy has a lock on the job...
run twenty-odd tasks without crashing.
really.
the WIPO copyright treaty says:
well, that's Article 11, anyway.
note what it doesn't say: it doesn't require countries to prosecute people who create programs which could be used to circumvent copyright. it only requires "effective measures." that's pretty loose talk. there's no way it requires signatories to go as far as the DMCA.
sigh. I wish Manley was still Industry Minister. we wouldn't be having this nonsense with him around.
a quibble. SOCAN is not actually the Canadian version of the RIAA. It's a copyright collective that represents artists, and as such is the Canadian version of ASCAP and BMI.
also, the decision by the Copyright Board is currently on appeal to the Federal Court of Appeal, and doesn't specify any actual ISP tax. that is, it's just a ruling on who would be liable in the case of copyright infringement on the 'net, rather than something like the CDR tax.
note for the Adobaphobes. the Copyright Board seems to have gone Acrobat-happy. on the flip side, they're running Apache. :)
The CD-R surtax is only applied to those "Audio CD-R"-labeled things you see at the HMV.
You know, the ones that cost like $7 or $8.
The CD-Rs you buy at the computer store, which cost like $1 or $1.50 or so, don't have the surtax applied.
Of course, it's... the... same... disc. :)
he raked it in from the toys he sold.
I am unaware of lucasfilm getting involved in the medical supplies arena.
if you hear to the contrary, please let me know.
also, Star Wars made tons of money. it was released back in the '70s. back then, popular movies used to stay in theatres for months or years.
it was released in '77. I think the last time I saw it was '80.
Sure.
Russia should issue arrest warrants for the Adobe programmers who wrote the eBook code that prevents users from making backups (illegal in Russia), and figure out a way to lure them to Moscow.
Then we'd see some action...
you do indeed have access to their newspapers. there's this thing called the world wide web, perhaps you've heard of it.
stories from the moscow times:
so there ya go.
crazy moderators.
first of all, SLi is right.
second of all, people should read my posts. from that post:
(some stuff about Adobe and KIlustrator snipped)
so there ya go. quit with this "I Must Sue Everyone Who Calls Anything By A Name Vaguely Similar To My Trademark Or I Will Lose My Rights" myth. it's wrong. if your lawyer says that to you, your lawyer is:
noticed in the AIMster screenshot, they show the taskbar. this is probably kinda offtopic but I wouldn't have seen it if not for this article.
I can clearly make out WP and Netscape and RealPlayer icons. no Office, no IE, no WiMP.
evidence that maybe DOJ is trying to kick the M$ habit.
still, it's obviously a Win32 screen.
steely dan has a legion of dedicated fans. plus, their records are very difficult to find, unlike rage (who get searched for a lot because most of their fans are dead broke all the time).
as for the crunchy. mm, good frog. :)
huh. pot-kettle. from the article:
twerp.
in a sense.
usually though, the Government of the United States is the executive branch. that's the part that actually does things.
it's oversimplifying the government somewhat to say that everything the supreme court does is totally supported by all branches. I mean, look at Roe vs. Wade and the current executive branch.
heh. dword?
look everyone, it's 32 bits with two edges! :)
A lot of employers, especially the kind with a lot of employees, will not search individual employees' email as a matter of course. What they will do is run keyword searches on everybody's email. PGP defeats that.
Also, it stops them from digging through your email and finding cause for dismissal there, though it will make them suspicious.
And finally, one never has to pray for a dumb employer. They grow on trees. See the nearest PHB.
In Berne Convention countries (which includes the United States, and has since 1988 I believe), everything you write is automatically copyrighted, merely by your act of creating it.
This has included letters in the past.
In other words, private email you send is (probably) copyrighted as a matter of course. There'd be an implied license allowing delivery servers to copy it for the purposes of delivery, but that would be it.
I don't know of any rulings before the courts on this yet, but it's bound to happen, and I think that's what'll happen.
So in other words, yes, the original poster would be right. Encrypt your email, and anyone who decrypts it without your permission is decrypting a copyrighted item. Oops.
A lot of Americans haven't yet fully grasped the Berne Convention. Before the U.S. joined the Berne Convention, it was a registration-only copyright system, where in order to get a copyright on something, you had to register it, while the rest of the western world used optional registration.
Actually, that's not true.
If a user of a common carrier service is using the service for illegal activities, that service can be disconnected. For example, look at post boxes. The postal service is a common carrier, but if you use a rented box to further illegal activity, then that box can be taken away.
By adding in the warning about copyright, ISPs are really just covering their butts. They're giving themselves the leeway to cut service off at their discretion, rather than forcing themselves to wait for a court order.
actually, the boy scouts aren't allowed to discriminate against gays because they're a private organization.
they're allowed to discriminate against gays because they're a religious organization, and the gay lifestyle disagrees with their religious, i.e. constitutionally-protected, views.
however, the government of the United States had nothing to do with it. it was a private suit launched by private people, settled by the Supreme Court.
look at the map.
it's a circular road, literally an infinite loop.
oh and btw - it's GeorgeH who can't spell. :)