Interestingly, the area of deliberate misspellings has been dealt with, and it's pretty clear under trademark law that they're infringements.
The idea for trademarks is that they're supposed to protect the consumer; basically, the holder of a trademark is allowed to sue people who use trademarks that are really similar, so that consumers don't get confused about what they're buying. So typo registrations (yahooo.com for example:) are obviously confusing, and fall in the area of black-letter law.
The last names are a thorny part of trademark law. I'm not going there now, 'cause it's too late and I have homework to do for tomorrow.:)
The degradation issue is where you get really thorny, though. That's a place where lots of countries have no rules at all... but the US has a system for protecting the trademark holder's investment in the mark, and so do quite a few other countries. Again, I'm not goin' there...;)
I don't know of any specific cases, but I would think the answer is yes. Plagiarism isn't violating copyright; it's passing off the work of others as your own. If I submit Shakespeare's sonnets to a creative writing class, I'm not violating copyright (they've been in the public domain for a long, long time:) but I'm committing plagiarism.
So I think this would be like that. Just like using some of Linus' code in an operating systems course would be plagiarism, unless of course you happened to be a crazy Finn with a thing for penguins.:)
...another aspect to the money-market situation that makes it advantageous not to use gold. In the case of a serious economic downturn, you can prevent the 'run on the bank' in which everyone dashes to their local bank and demands gold for their money - which can't happen when you're off the gold standard.
What? Runs on banks never happen with paper money? Huh? Ever hear of Principal Group, a multi-billion-dollar financial empire that went bust in 1989 because that's exactly what happened?
I understand the fraud arguments. But please don't tell me gold encourages runs. The only thing that'll stop runs is if the bank actually keeps all of its money in the bank.
You're talking like a telco. I am shocked to see people agreeing with you on/. of all places.
Big pipes make things possible. Really neat things. Things like live worldwide videoconferencing.
Things which aren't possible now because too many people you want to connect to are on 56K or less.
Admittedly, getting people DSL would solve much of this problem. But really: in many ways ethernet cable is easier to lay in than to retrofit old-style telco/cable networks with tcp/ip capabilities.
I think it would be fine to just give everyone a 10/100 drop in the wall. That'd be great. But even that would be way more than DSL bandwidth.
Andromeda was originally paid for by Global TV, a Canadian channel. The Americans got it later.
Much as they got, for example, Doctor Who later.;)
On the up side (if you like the show:) I heard that Global paid for 40 eps, straight up. So it'll be around for a while. No matter what/. decides:)
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It's not really like the Heechee saga, except for the minor black hole commonality.
As to why nobody's licensed Pohl: Hollywood's still trying to turn every Phil Dick short into a Schwarzenegger blockbuster, haven't gotten to Pohl yet.:)
The Eschaton Sequence would also make a really interesting mini-series, even if they'd have to give whoever played all the Dannos a nearly-infinite amount of screentime.:) They'd probably have to use Careful Camera Angles when the humans first get captured, though.
However, perhaps Hollyrude will discover Dorsai! next. Certainly all the B5ers would eat it up.
I like Kevin Sorbo. I actually watched a few eps of Hercules because he was cool. The rest of the show sucked eggs, and I found something better to do when it was on, so I stopped. So that's the disclaimer.
The show's pretty good. And it doesn't remind me of Trek much at all. For lots of reasons...
The aliens are too freaky-weird. Trek aliens are always like humans (or occasionally gods). These are more like Star Wars aliens.
Nietzscheans in Trek? Don't make me laugh. In the Trek universe, nobody's ever that mean. Not even Klingons.
Slipstream. It's pretty closely related as a movement technology to B5's hyperspace. Nothing like warp drive.
The military structure.
Actually, if anything, it reminds me of Crusade. But that can't be right, right? I mean, it's from the Roddenberry universe, and Roddenberry's stuff had NO IMPACT on JMS?
Huh. Watch Genesis 2 sometime.
So, that said, I'd rather be watching Outer Limits. But Andromeda's pretty good.
The law is strongly based on trust. Most of the time, the law is followed voluntarily.
The exceptions are where we hear about lawsuits and so on. But let's face it, business contracts are all about trust. If every contract wound up in court.... we'd have a whole lot more cases.
I mean, even think about something like Micro$oft. Suppose vast numbers of people started pirating Windows CDs. What could they do?
Protest that it's against the law. They couldn't effectively sue IBM, Compaq, HP, Dell, Gateway, and everyone else, all at once.
Now, I can't speak for other Canadians, of course. But...
While there are some 'established' acts (all around since the early 90s) that I'm still buying CDs from (recent examples include Radiohead and Tool), I haven't been able to find a genuinely new band on a Major Label that I like.
All the new bands (i.e. LESS THAN FIVE YEARS OLD) that I've been listening to have been either on indie labels or producing CD-Rs in the basement. Everybody else seems to suck.
And it's not that I'm cheap. I regularly spend over $40 Canadian (not including taxes) on Current 93 import CDs, because that's how much they cost, arrrgh. (I am cheap when I can get away with it, though - used CD stores are my friend.)
I actually felt a little guilty when I bought the new Tool, though, because they're still RIAA. Guys, you don't need them. CD-Rs in the basement. Tool would still sell tons of albums. It's not like the industry ever supported them anyway. (Think Opiate.)
While I love VMS, don't get me wrong, there are a lot of people out there with VMS boxen which have a DECnet daemon that has SYSPRV enabled.
This doesn't strike them as bad, until some user with NETMBX runs tell.com, runs authorize.exe through tell, and gets SETPRV.:)
That said, I'd rather run a webserver on VMS than any other OS. The ability to use ACLs to control access by CGIs to specific files is far too attractive; most *nix systems wind up having to grant world read/write access to things that CGIs generate, which is just dumb and bad.
Frankly, if you want security in VMS, you pretty much have to deny your users NETMBX and install individual applications with it. The problem is you have to install a lot of applications.
It's funny. the time I met RMS, I actually was a genuine, dyed-in-the-wool fanboy, complete with Star Trek t-shirts, mountains of computer printouts (mostly the old 132-column dot-matrix printouts that never seemed to get the formfeeds in the right spots), and the whole works. I'd already read my Stephen Levy so I knew who he was.
So I concluded that my awe of him was just a reflection of that phase in my life when I was a teenage hacker fanboy gamer.:) Admittedly, I don't idolize him anymore, but it's still fun to see people like the poster here. He just got... exposed... to RMS... and the rest is history.
RMS is just so fervent and so much the archetypical hacker. he polarizes people; they like him or they don't, and it doesn't have much to do with his ideas, more his intensity. hackers, naturally, tend to go for the pro side, being also generally pretty intense people.
However, as for what he did - isn't he the guy who wrote the first version of gcc? try running a *nix without that_ these days:)
well, the one time I saw RMS, he was giving a talk at the Boston WorldCon in '89, to a room full of grubby hacker types. he was probably the cleanest one there. in theory it was supposed to be a debate but the guy from Activision never showed up, or possibly showed up, took one look at the crowd, and bolted:)
Well, it _could_ go down if the Win2K machines were so bad that they slowed the whole network down; if, for example, they crashed a lot, causing random load increases on the BSD machines, or made the routers get confused, or whatever.
You do have a point, though - even if it's a moderately terrible decision, it should make Hotmail faster. It's only if it's a truly horrifyingly bad decision that Hotmail will get worse.;)
The patent office can't invalidate a patent, once issued. Only a US Federal Court can do that. Which means that, usually, somebody has to get sued on the patent first.
It gets worse. In order to intervene with the Patent Office before the patent is issued, you normally have to show standing. You can send the Patent Office prior art to consider, but they aren't bound by it. And normally patent applications _are_not_ made public, so the general public can't find out about it until the patent has been issued.
Well, I've only been running FreeBSD for a month or two, & I didn't know about this pub. And yes, I've read probably about half of the FreeBSD website, don't remember seeing it.
It would be nice if/. had somewhat better BSD coverage though... like actual stories, rather than stories about stories.;)
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The idea for trademarks is that they're supposed to protect the consumer; basically, the holder of a trademark is allowed to sue people who use trademarks that are really similar, so that consumers don't get confused about what they're buying. So typo registrations (yahooo.com for example :) are obviously confusing, and fall in the area of black-letter law.
The last names are a thorny part of trademark law. I'm not going there now, 'cause it's too late and I have homework to do for tomorrow. :)
The degradation issue is where you get really thorny, though. That's a place where lots of countries have no rules at all... but the US has a system for protecting the trademark holder's investment in the mark, and so do quite a few other countries. Again, I'm not goin' there... ;)
So I think this would be like that. Just like using some of Linus' code in an operating systems course would be plagiarism, unless of course you happened to be a crazy Finn with a thing for penguins. :)
I quite liked a lot of the old Tron vids. Lightcycles make for fun, at least by the standards of the early 80s. :)
What? Runs on banks never happen with paper money? Huh? Ever hear of Principal Group, a multi-billion-dollar financial empire that went bust in 1989 because that's exactly what happened?
I understand the fraud arguments. But please don't tell me gold encourages runs. The only thing that'll stop runs is if the bank actually keeps all of its money in the bank.
according to M$, Hotmail currently runs on a blend of Win2K and Solaris (i.e. commercial BSD :) systems.
Big pipes make things possible. Really neat things. Things like live worldwide videoconferencing.
Things which aren't possible now because too many people you want to connect to are on 56K or less.
Admittedly, getting people DSL would solve much of this problem. But really: in many ways ethernet cable is easier to lay in than to retrofit old-style telco/cable networks with tcp/ip capabilities.
I think it would be fine to just give everyone a 10/100 drop in the wall. That'd be great. But even that would be way more than DSL bandwidth.
yeah, that's right, eh? we canadians have no accent :)
Much as they got, for example, Doctor Who later. ;)
On the up side (if you like the show :) I heard that Global paid for 40 eps, straight up. So it'll be around for a while. No matter what /. decides :)
As to why nobody's licensed Pohl: Hollywood's still trying to turn every Phil Dick short into a Schwarzenegger blockbuster, haven't gotten to Pohl yet. :)
The Eschaton Sequence would also make a really interesting mini-series, even if they'd have to give whoever played all the Dannos a nearly-infinite amount of screentime. :) They'd probably have to use Careful Camera Angles when the humans first get captured, though.
However, perhaps Hollyrude will discover Dorsai! next. Certainly all the B5ers would eat it up.
I think we should fight them all. Use Shoutcast for streaming audio, and streaming video is TOTALLY UNNECESSARY. MPEG or QuickTime is _fine_
What's more, now that Apple's woken up, Shoutcast playback is available pretty much out-of-the-box on every major commercial OS. (it's in iTunes)
I've watched maybe a half-dozen eps. So.
I like Kevin Sorbo. I actually watched a few eps of Hercules because he was cool. The rest of the show sucked eggs, and I found something better to do when it was on, so I stopped. So that's the disclaimer.
The show's pretty good. And it doesn't remind me of Trek much at all. For lots of reasons...
Actually, if anything, it reminds me of Crusade. But that can't be right, right? I mean, it's from the Roddenberry universe, and Roddenberry's stuff had NO IMPACT on JMS?
Huh. Watch Genesis 2 sometime.
So, that said, I'd rather be watching Outer Limits. But Andromeda's pretty good.
The Nietzscheans do indeed live in a bleak and horrible future. and you're right about Rand. and so was the original poster. :)
Ironically, I met RMS about twelve years ago, and was surprised by how clean he was. :)
The law is strongly based on trust. Most of the time, the law is followed voluntarily.
The exceptions are where we hear about lawsuits and so on. But let's face it, business contracts are all about trust. If every contract wound up in court.... we'd have a whole lot more cases.
I mean, even think about something like Micro$oft. Suppose vast numbers of people started pirating Windows CDs. What could they do?
Protest that it's against the law. They couldn't effectively sue IBM, Compaq, HP, Dell, Gateway, and everyone else, all at once.
Now, I can't speak for other Canadians, of course. But...
While there are some 'established' acts (all around since the early 90s) that I'm still buying CDs from (recent examples include Radiohead and Tool), I haven't been able to find a genuinely new band on a Major Label that I like.
All the new bands (i.e. LESS THAN FIVE YEARS OLD) that I've been listening to have been either on indie labels or producing CD-Rs in the basement. Everybody else seems to suck.
And it's not that I'm cheap. I regularly spend over $40 Canadian (not including taxes) on Current 93 import CDs, because that's how much they cost, arrrgh. (I am cheap when I can get away with it, though - used CD stores are my friend.)
I actually felt a little guilty when I bought the new Tool, though, because they're still RIAA. Guys, you don't need them. CD-Rs in the basement. Tool would still sell tons of albums. It's not like the industry ever supported them anyway. (Think Opiate.)
Or, at least, not RIAA music.
I've been buying World Serpent just fine since. :)
Netscape is more stable than Mozilla, and the source is a tad easier to obtain than IE's. ;)
The big VMS bug: DECnet.
While I love VMS, don't get me wrong, there are a lot of people out there with VMS boxen which have a DECnet daemon that has SYSPRV enabled.
This doesn't strike them as bad, until some user with NETMBX runs tell.com, runs authorize.exe through tell, and gets SETPRV. :)
That said, I'd rather run a webserver on VMS than any other OS. The ability to use ACLs to control access by CGIs to specific files is far too attractive; most *nix systems wind up having to grant world read/write access to things that CGIs generate, which is just dumb and bad.
Frankly, if you want security in VMS, you pretty much have to deny your users NETMBX and install individual applications with it. The problem is you have to install a lot of applications.
It's funny. the time I met RMS, I actually was a genuine, dyed-in-the-wool fanboy, complete with Star Trek t-shirts, mountains of computer printouts (mostly the old 132-column dot-matrix printouts that never seemed to get the formfeeds in the right spots), and the whole works. I'd already read my Stephen Levy so I knew who he was.
So I concluded that my awe of him was just a reflection of that phase in my life when I was a teenage hacker fanboy gamer. :) Admittedly, I don't idolize him anymore, but it's still fun to see people like the poster here. He just got ... exposed ... to RMS ... and the rest is history.
RMS is just so fervent and so much the archetypical hacker. he polarizes people; they like him or they don't, and it doesn't have much to do with his ideas, more his intensity. hackers, naturally, tend to go for the pro side, being also generally pretty intense people.
However, as for what he did - isn't he the guy who wrote the first version of gcc? try running a *nix without that_ these days :)
well, the one time I saw RMS, he was giving a talk at the Boston WorldCon in '89, to a room full of grubby hacker types. he was probably the cleanest one there. in theory it was supposed to be a debate but the guy from Activision never showed up, or possibly showed up, took one look at the crowd, and bolted :)
remember that AOL used to be QuantumLink, a long time ago (well, the '80s), and back then they were Commodore 64-only. M$ fans? hell no :)
and if I remember right, Steve Case was one of the founding/early people in QLink...
The Deja archive never went back before about '94 or so anyway. I've been on Usenet since late '90 and they never had any of my early posts.
Which may be just as well. :)
They do have me back to October '99, though. But that's only about 5-10% of my total Usenet output.
Well, it _could_ go down if the Win2K machines were so bad that they slowed the whole network down; if, for example, they crashed a lot, causing random load increases on the BSD machines, or made the routers get confused, or whatever.
You do have a point, though - even if it's a moderately terrible decision, it should make Hotmail faster. It's only if it's a truly horrifyingly bad decision that Hotmail will get worse. ;)
The patent office can't invalidate a patent, once issued. Only a US Federal Court can do that. Which means that, usually, somebody has to get sued on the patent first.
It gets worse. In order to intervene with the Patent Office before the patent is issued, you normally have to show standing. You can send the Patent Office prior art to consider, but they aren't bound by it. And normally patent applications _are_not_ made public, so the general public can't find out about it until the patent has been issued.
Well, I've only been running FreeBSD for a month or two, & I didn't know about this pub. And yes, I've read probably about half of the FreeBSD website, don't remember seeing it.
It would be nice if /. had somewhat better BSD coverage though... like actual stories, rather than stories about stories. ;)